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Biographical Sketches of its Distinguished Citizens, 



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INTRODUCTION. 

"^ilill ^ '^^^-^ ^^ ^^'^ United States^ oj equal population^ commercial importance and material wealth, n 
h^w, so little known by the outside -ivorld as j\eiv Orleans, ylnd yet its Justory,full of romantic incident 
Vy^7 and legendary lore is in itself sufficient to fill a -icluine, whilst its peculiar characteristics, local 

institutions, and singular tnanners and ciistor.is of its people would furnish material for q- ivork of 

larger scope than is designed by the author op' this publication. 

It is, however, his object and desire to present to the reader, in an attractive and succinci Jorin, a 
brief historical outline of the most prcn:incut features that aidrilmte to make the Crescent City 
the great metropolis of the South and Scmli^West, and prove the inteVngence, enterprise and progressive 
spirit of its citizens. It is also his design to pi oduce such a work as 7cill disseminate a more general 
knowledge of the local history of Jlew Orleans and will, in a great degree, demonstrate its imniense 
resources, advantages and attractions, and at the same time furnish such information as w'ill engage 
the attention op the casiial reader and ccn:n:and the serious consideration of capitalists, immigrants 
and the commercial world. 

In the preparation of this volume, com^prisiiig as it does, a vast amount of informaticn and a great 
variety of subjects, the author has been materially assisted by the contributions of a number of literary 
friends whose valuable services he desires to publicly ackncidedge. The Hon. Charles Gayarre, Prof. D. K. 
Whittaker, Prof. Alex. Dimitry, Hon. Wm. M. Burrell, Albert Fabre, Esq., E. W. Halsey, Esq., Judge Alexander Walker 
and Mr, E. C, Hancock, of thelfeiv Orleans "Times f and Mr. J. A, Quintero, of tiie - 'I'icayuiief have all 
lent the aid of their graceful pens to the pages of the Crescent City Illustrated. To say that 
all of tliese gentlemen are recognized as writers of the Jiighest order of literary talent would oidy be to 
accord them their ivell=rnerited reputation. Extracts also liave been made from " Jforman's History 
of Jlew Orleans," and other volumes have contributed interesting statistics wliicli have been carefully 
compiled and arranged. 

If this volume, prepared with much care and labor, will in any way contribute towards giving 
additional information or throwin.g more light upon the general history of fNeiv Orleans and tend to 
remove the unreasonable and 'unjust prejudices that e.xist through ignorance of its true character, the 
highest object in view will have been fully attained and tlie richest reward obtained by 

TFIK Al^THOR. 

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Slow sweeping from a bleak northwestern clinie, 
Where snoiv^storms beat and forests rise sublime, 
Till, gathering strength, as soiithivard rolls his course, 
To Mexicana's Gulf descends his force; 
Monarch of streams I great Mississippi fiows, 
While on his breast the fervid sunbeam flows. 

And, rising near his disemboguing tide, 
The Crescent City sits in queenly pride; 
The spires ascend, a coronet on high. 
Her gardens bloom with every floral dye ; 
Her thronging marts a varied crowd display. 
The niercJiant prince, the dame in rich array, 
The ic>an=eyed beggar, and the tradesman keen, 
The brisk attorney with his eager mien. 
And sapient age, with tottering step and slow, 
Walks side by side with youth in freshest glow ; 
From different lands collected strangirs meet, 
Are borne in cars or m.ove along the street. 

^ut white and solemn, m-idst the ceaseless tread, 
(Rise, here and there, the dwellings of the dead I 
Whose peopled mansions never sound repeat. 
Save song-birds' wail, at evening, clear and sweet. 

The floating palace on the grand old stream. 
The thundering iron horse impelled by steam, 
(Pour in her lap rich treasures from all lands, 
ASj Queen of Trade, the Crescent Empress stands! 

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Nkw Orleans, the Metropolis of the South, stands on 
the right side of the Mississippi, in ascending, ninety-two 
miles from its mouth. The river here makes a considerable 
bend to the northeast, and the city occupies the north- 
western side, although its situation is east of the general 
rourse of the stream. It is in latitude 29" o7 north, lougi- 
tudi> 90" 8' west; by the river oOl miles below Natchez ; 
1 ■J'Jii miles below St. Louis ; 104(1 below Cairo, at the mouth 
dl' the Ohio; 2004 below Pittsburg ; and 1244 southwest 
from Washington city. 

In 1718, Bienville, then Ooveruor of the province, ex- 
]»lored the banks of the Mississippi, in order to choose a 
spot for the chief settlement, whicli had hithei'to been at 
Fiiloxi. He selected the present site, and left fifty men to 
clear the ground, and erect the necessary buildings. Much 
opposition was made, both by the military and the direct- 
ors of the Western Company, to removing the seat of gov- 
ernment to this place. Another obstacle, for a while, 
threatened almost insurmountable difficulties to his design. 
In 1719, the Mississippi rose to an extraordinary height ; 
and, as the company did not possess sufficient force to pro- 
tect the spot from inundation, by dykes and levees, it was 
lor a time abandoned. In the November of 1722, however, 
in pursuance of orders, Delorme removed the principal es- 
tablishment to New Orleans. In the following year, agree- 
ably to Chai-levoix, it consisted only of one hundred cabins, 
placed with little order, a large wooden warehouse, two or 
three dwelling-houses, and a miserable store-house, which 
had been used as a chapel, a mere shed being then the only 
accommodation afforded for a house of prayer. The pop- 
ulation did not exceed two hundred. Thus commenced 
what is now called the " Crescent City ; ' which, in a ('om- 
mercial point of view, and in piroportion to the number of 
its inhabitants, has not an equal on the face of the globe. 

During the same year, a party of German emigrants, who 
had been disappointed by the financier. Law, of settling on 
lands granted to him in Arkansas, descended the river to 
New Orleans, in the hope of obtaining passage to France ; 
but the government being either unwilling or unable to 
grant it, small allotments of land were apportioned them, 
on what is now called the Gennan Coast. These people 
supplied the city with garden stuffs ; and most of then- de- 
scendants, with large accessions from the old country, still 
cultivate the same land, upon a much improved scale. 

In September of this j-ear, the capital was visited by a 
terrible hurricane, which levelled to the ground the church, 
if siich it might be called, the hospital, and thirty houses ; 
and three vessels that lay in the river were driven ashore. 
So destructive was it to the crops and gai'dens, that a 
scarcity of provisions was the consequence ; and such was 
the distress, that several of the inhabitants seriously 
thought of abandoning the colony. 

In the summer of 1727, the .Jesuits and Ursuline nuns 



arrived. The fathers were placed on a tract of land now 
forming the lowest part of the fauxbourg St. Mary. The 
nuns were tempoi'ai-ily lodged in a house in the cornei' of 
Chartres and Bienville streets — but, soon after, the com- 
pany laid the foundation of the edifice in Conde and Ursu- 
line streets, to which they were removed in 1730 ; this 
place was occupied by theni until the gi'eat value of the 
land induced them to divide the larger portion of it into 
lots. Their new convent was erected about two miles 
below the city, and there they removed in 1824. At this 
period, the council house and jail were built, on the uppei- 
side of the Cathedral. 

In 1763, Clement XIII expelled the .Jesuits from the 
dominions of the kings of France, Spain and Naples. They 
were, consequently, obliged to leave Louisiana. Their 
property in New Orleans was seized, and sold for about 
one hundred and eighty thousand dollars. At the time 
of the expulsion of this order, they owned the grounds 
which are now occupied by the first District. The valu- 
able buildings in which they dwelt, were situated in 
Gravier and Magazine streets. Some of them wei-e pulled 
down to make room for the late banking-house of the 
Canal bank, on the corner of those streets. It is computed, 
that more than one half of the real estate in this city, is de- 
rived from the confiscation of the property of the .Jesuits, 
iinder legal proceedings had by order of the French gov- 
ernment. The archives of the city contain many intei'- 
esting and curious documents in relation to these pro- 
ceedings, that are well worth examination. 

The first visitation of the yellow fever was in 17(i9. Since 
that time it has continued to be almost an annual visitor. 
It was introduced into this contitent, in the above named 
year, by a British vensel, from the coast of Africa, loith a 
cargo of slaves. In addition to this affliction, (the yellow 
fever above alluded to,) the colony was, during the year 
1769, transferred to Spain, and the capital was taken pos- 
session of by O'Reilly, with a show of military power, and 
an individual disposition to oppress, that brought equal 
disgrace upon himself, and upon the government that com- 
missioned hun. The commerce of this city suffered very 
much from the I'esti'ictive colonial system of Spain. This, 
however, was removed in 1778, (a year memorable for a fire 
that burnt nine hundred houses at one time) and, in 1782, 
the mercantile interest of the place was benefited by still 
further extended privileges of trade. 

The census of 1785 gives to the city a population of 
4,780, exclusive of the settlements in the immediate 
vicinity. 

In consequence of the commercial advantages above 
alluded to, a niunber of merchants from France established 
themselves here, and British trading vessels navigated the 
Mississippi. They were a species of marine pedlers, stop- 
ping to trade at any house, by making fast to a tree, and 



JEWELL'S CRESCENT CITY LLUSTRATED. 



receiving in payment for merchandize, whatever the planter 
liad to spare, or giving him long credits. The Americans, 
at that time, commenced the establishment of that trade 
from the west to New Orleans, which has been steadily in- 
creasing ever since. The idea of this traffic was first con- 
ceived by General Wilkinson. A lucrative business was 
also conducted by the Philadelphians, which the colonial 
authorities winked at for a while ; but the Spanish minis- 
ter, finding that he did not participate in the profits of it, 
as the Americans refused to comply with his hints to con- 
sign to his friends, put a stop to it. He procured a list of 
the names of the vessels, severely reprimanded the intend- 
ant, Navarro, and so worked upon his fears that he began 
to prosecute all infringements of the revenue laws, seizing 
the vessels, confiscating the goods and imprisoning the 
owners, captains and crews. The venal minister, perceiv- 
ing that he had rendered himself extremely unpopular by 
his intermeddling with the commerce between Philadelphia 
and New Orleans, finally released all the hielividuals he had 
imprisoned, restoring the confiscated property, and discon- 
tinuing any further interference. The trade immediately 
received a new impulse and was greatly increased. Gen- 
eral Wilkinson at the same time obtained pei'mission to 
send one or more launches loaded with tobacco, from Ken- 
tucky. 

Soon after, many Americans availed themselves of a pri- 
vilege which was granted, of settling in the country. 

The first company of Fiench comedians arrived here in 
1791. Tliey came from Cape Francois, wheiice they made 
their escape from the revolted slaves. Others from the 
same quarter opened academies — the education of youth 
having hitherto been confined to the priests and nuns. 

The baron Carondelet, in 1792, divided the city into four 
wards. He recommended lighting it, and employing watch- 
men. The revenue did not amount to seven thousand 
dollars, and to meet the chai-ges for the purchases of lamps 
and oil, and to pay watchmen, a tax of one dollar and an 
eighth was levied upon chimneys. 

He also commenced new fortifications around the capital. 
A fort was erected where the mint now stands, and another 
at the foot of Canal street. A strong redoubt was built in 
Rampart street, and at each of the angles of the now city 
proper. The Baron also paid some attention to training 
the militia. In the city, there were four companies of vol- 
unteers, one of artillery, and two of riflemen, consisting of 
one hundred men each, making an aggregate force of 7U() 
men. 

A great extension was given to business in February of 
this year. The inhabitants were now permitted to trade 
freely in Europe and America, wherever Spain had formed 
treaties for the regulation of commerce. The merchandise 
thus imported, was subject to a duty of fifteen per cent. ; 
and exports to six per cent. With the Peninsula it was 
free. 

In 179."i permission was granted by the king to citizens 
of the United States, during a period of tjsir years, to 
deposit merchandise at New Orleans. The succeeding 
year, the nty was visited by another conflagration, which 
destroyed many houses. This reduced the tax upon chim- 



neys so much, that recourse was had to assessing wheat 
biead and meat, to defray the expense of the city light and 
watch. 

At the time of the transfer to the United States, the 
public property consisted of two large brick stores, running 
from the levee on each side of Main street, (which were 
bunit in 1822,) — a government house, at the corner of 
Levee and Toulouse streets, (which also suffered a similar 
fate in 1S26,) — a military hospital, and a powder magazine, 
on the opposite side of the river, which was abandoned 
some years since — an old frame custom house — extensive 
barracks below those now remaining — five miserable 
redoubts, a town house, market house, assembly room and 
prison, a cathedral and presbytery, and a charity hospital. 
At this memorable era, the gi'ounds which now constitute 
that thriving portion of the city, then known as the second 
municipality, were mostly used as a f)lantation. It was 
the property of a wealthy citizen named Gravier, after 
whom one of the principal streets that runs through the 
property has been called. How has the scene changed ? 
At this moment it contains a population of nearly fifty 
thousand, and has liecome the centre of the business, and 
enterprise, and beauty of the city. 

In 1804, New Orleans was made a port of entry and de- 
livery, and Bayou St. John a port of delivery. The first 
act of incorporation was granted to the city, by the leg- ' 
islative council of the territory, in 1805, under the style 
of " the Mayor, Aldermen and inhabitants of the city 
of New Orleans. " The officers were a mayor, a 
recorder, fourteen aldermen and a treasurer. This year a 
branch of the United States Bank was established in this 
capital. 

The population of the city and suburbs in 1810, amounted 
to 24,552 ; having been trebled in seven years, under the 
administration of its new government. The prosf)erity of 
its trade increased in an equal ratio. 

At that time the city extended no further down than 
Esplanade street, with the exception of here and there a 
villa scattered along the leeve ; nor above, further than 
Canal street, unless occasionally a house occupying a 
square of ground. A few dwellings had been erected on 
Canal and Magazine streets, but it was considered to be 
getting quite into the country, to go beyond the Polar Star 
Lodge, which was at the corner of Camp and Gravier 
streets. 

There was not then a paved street in the city. The late 
Benjamin Morgan, who, some time after, made the first at- 
tempt, was looked upon as a visionary. The circumstance 
which gave an impulse to impiovements in the second mu- 
nicipality, was the erection of the American theatre, on 
Camp-street, by James H. Caldwell, Esq., the only access 
to which, for a long time, was over flatboat gunwales. This 
was in 1823 — 4. He was ridiculed for his folly, and deri- 
ded as a madman — but time proved his foresight. He was 
soon followed by a crowd that gave life and energy to that 
section ; and, in a few years, through the enterprise of 
others of a similar spirit, the then suburb of St. jSIary 
reached its pr(>sent advanced state of elegance and pros- 
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The block where the Auctioneer's Exchange has since 
been built, was then occupied by a row of frail wooden 
shanties; and the corner of Royal and Custom house 
streets, where the bank now stands, was tenanted by Scott, 
who furnished food for his hundreds a day directly op- 
posite, and who laid the foundation of his fortune in the 
tenement that was removed to make room for the present 
beautiful edifice. 

ARCHITECTURE. 

The houses are chiefly constructed with briclvs, except a 
few ancient and dilapidated dwellings in the heart of the 
city, and some new ones in the outskirts. Wooden build- 
ings are not permitted to be built, under present regula- 
tions, within what are denominated the fire limits. The 
modern structures, particularly in the First District, are 
generally three and four stories high, and are embellished 
with handsome and substantial granite, marble or iron 
fronts. The public buildings are numerous ; and many of 
them will vie with any of the kind in our sister cities. 

The view of New Orleans from the river, in ascending or 
descend.ng, is beautiful and imposing — seen from the spire 
of St. Patrick's Church, it presents a panorama at 
once magnificent and sui'prising. In taking a lounge 
through the lower part of the city, the stranger finds a 
difficulty in believing himself to be in an American city. 
The older buildings are of ancient and foreign construction, 
and the manners, customs and language are various — the 
population being composed, m nearly equal proportions, of 
American, French, Creoles, and Spaniards, together with a 
large portion of Germans and Irish and a good sprink- 
ling from almost every other nation upon the globe. 

In the summer of 1844, a fire destroyed about seven 
blocks of buildings btween Common and Canal streets, 
near the charily Hospital. The gi'ound has since been 
occupied with much better buildings, and presents a very 
inqjroved appearance. 

POPULATIOJf, 

The population of New Orleans, after it was ceded to the 
United States, increased very rapidly. At the time of 
the transfer, there were not eight thousand inhabitants. 

In 1810 
1815 
1820 
1825 
1830 
1840 
1850 
1860 
1870 

and at the present period there are, probably two hundred 
and twenty thousand. During 1844 there were more buildings 
erected than any previous year — notwithstanding which, 
tenements are in great demand, and rents continue high. 

BOARD OF HEALTH. 

The first ordinance for the establishment of a board of 
health in this city, (so far as known,) was passed by the 
general council in June, of 1 1. The board consisted of 



Ulacks. 


Whites. 


Total. 


8,001 


16,551 


24,552 






82,947 


19,737 


21,614 


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45,336 


21,280 


28,530 


49,826 


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102,191 


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91,431 


119,460 


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149,063 


174,491 


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nine members — three aldermen, three physicians, and three 
private citizens. It was invested with ample powers to 
adopt and enforce such sanitary regulations as were thought 
conducive to the health of the city. This board performed 
all its functions well during the first year of its existence. 
The second year there was a falling off; but a dissolution 
did not take place till 1843. In 1844, the board of health 
having ceased to officiate, the general council invited the 
medico-chirurgical society to take charge of this duty. 
This proposition was accepted, and a committee of nine mem- 
bers aiDpointed, with full powei- to act as a board of health. 



Society, as at present constituted in New Orleans, has 
very little resemblance to that of any other city in the 
Union. It is made up of a heterogeneous mixtui-e of 
almost all nations. First, and foremost, is the Creole 
population. All who are born here, come under this desig- 
nation, withovit reference to the birth place of their parents. 
They form the foundation, on which the superstructui'C of 
what is termed " society," is erected. They are remarkably 
exclusive in their intercoui'se with others, and, with 
strangers, enter into business arrangements with extreme 
caution. They were once, and very properly, considered 
as the patricians of the land. But they are not more dis- 
tinguished for their exclusiveness, and pride of family, than 
for their habits of punctuality, temperance and good 
faith. 

CHARACTER OF THE POl'ULATION. 

Till about the commencement of the present century, the 
period of the transfer of Louisiana to the United States, 
the Creoles were almost entirely of French and Spanish 
Xaarentage. Now, the industrious Germans, the shrewd 
and persevering Irishmen, are beginning to be quite numer- 
ous, and many of them have advanced to a condition ot 
wealth and respectability. 

Next come the emigrants from the sister States, from the 
mighty west, from the older sections of the south, and (last 
not least) from the colder regions of the north, the enter- 
prising, calculating, hardy Yankee. 

Then come the nondescript watennen. Our river steam 
navigation, averaging, during half the year, some three 
hundred arrivals per mouth, furnishes a class of fifteen thou- 
sand men, who have few if any parallels in the world. The 
numberless flatboats that throng the levees for an immense 
distance, are peopled and managed by an amj)liibious race 
of human beings, whose mode of living is much like that of 
the alligator, with whom they ironically claim I'elalionship, 
but who carry under their rough exterior and uncouth 
manners, a heart as generous and noble as beats in any 
human breast. They are the children of the Mississippi, 
as the Arabs are of the great desert, and, like them, 
accustomed to encounter danger in every shape. Combin- 
ing all the most striking peculiarities of the common sailor, 
the whaleman, the backwoodsman, and the Yankee, with- 
out imitating, or particularly resembling an) one of them, 
they ai'e a cla«s entirely by themselves, uni(iue, eccentric, 
original, a distinct and unmistakeable feature in the float- 



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ing mass that swarms on the levees, and treads tlie streets, 
of the Cresent City. 

Among them may be found the representatives of nearly 
all the states. Some are descendants of the Pilgrims, and 
have carried with them the industrious habits, and the 
strict moral principles, of their Puritan forefathers, into 
the wilds of the West. They are all active, enterprising, 
fearless, shrewd, independent, and self-sufficient, and often 
aspiring and ambitious, as our halls of legislation, and oui- 
business circles can testify. They are just the stuff to lay 
the broad foundations of freedom in a new country — able 
to clear the forest, and till the soil, in time of peace, to de- 
fend it in war, and to govern it at all times. 

SOCIAL CHARACTEKISTICS. 

Of the two hundred and fifty thousand souls, who now 
occupy this capital, about twenty thousand may be esti- 
mated as migratory. These are principally males, engaged 
in the various departments of business. Some of them 
have families at the North, where they pass the summer. 
Many are bachelors, who have no home for one half the 
year, and, if the poets are to be believed, less than half a 
home for the remainder. As these two classes of migratory 
citizens, who live at the hotels and boarding-houses, em- 
brace nearly, if not quite, one third the business men of the 
city, it may serve to. some extent, to accout for the seem- 
ingly severe restrictions by which the avenues to good 
native society aj-e protected. Unexceptionable character, 
certified beyound mistake, is the only passport to the 
domestic circle of the Creole. With such credentials their 
hospitality knows no limits. The resident Americans are 
less suspicious in admitting you to their hospitality, though 
not more liberal than their Creole neighbors, when once 
their confidence is secured. 

The restrictions thus thi'own around society, and the 
great difficulty which the new comei' exjieriences in secur- 
ing a share in those social enjoyments to which he has been 
accustomed in other places, have had an imfavorable effect 
upon the morals of the place. Having no other resource 
for pastime, when the hours of business are over, he flies 
to such public entertainments as the city affords. And if 
these are not always what they should be, it behooves us 
to provide better. Public libraries, reading rooms, galle- 
ries for the exhibition of the fine arts; lyceums for lectures, 
and other kindred rational amusements, would do much to 
establish a new and better order, and to break down those 
artificial barriers, which separate so many refined and pure 
minded men from the pleasures and advantages of general 
society, condemning them to live alone and secluded, in 
the midst of all that is lovely and attractive in the social 
relations of life. 

HEALTH OF THE CITY. 

The character of New Orleans, in respect to health, has 
been much and unjustly abused. At the north, in ratio to 
their population, the consumption annually destroys more 
than the yellow fever of the south. Patients with pulmonary 
complaints, resort to these latitud(!M for relief, where such 
diseases are otherwise rarely known. In truth, this capital 



shows a more favorable bill of mortality, than any seaport 
town in the United States. 



There is little to be said in favor of the morals of New 
Orleans, during the first few years after its cession. Report 
made them much worse than they were. • As the commu- 
nity was composed of some of the worst classes of society, 
gathered from every region under the sun, nothing very 
good was to be expected. But circumstances have changed. 
A system of wholesome police regulations has been intro- 
duced and enforced, which has either brought the desper- 
ate and the lawless under subjection, or expelled them from 
the community. By reference to the statistics of crime, in 
other commercial cities in proportion to the number of in- 
habitants, the stranger will be convinced that this City has 
reason to be proud of her standing. Personal security in the 
public streets, at all hours, is never endangered — and 
females may venture out after dark, without a protector, 
and be free from insult and molestation. 

THE PKOFESSIONS. 

The learned professions here, generally, stand pre- 
eminently high. The science of medicine may boast of a 
talent and a skill, that would confer honor upon any city 
in the Union — and the few empirics that disgrace the prac- 
tice, are so well known,that the evil is circumscribed within 
very narrow limits. The clergy are proverbial for their 
learning and eloquence — and the same remarks will apply 
with equal force to members of the bar. 

PUBLIC LIBRARY. 

This city, at the present time, possesses no pablic library. 
Considering the population, and their ability, this must be 
regarded as a blot upon the intelligence of its citizens. 
This is completely a commercial community, however, and 
money is the universal ambition. Thence spi'ings that ac- 
knowledged defi(-'iency in literatui'e and the fine arts, ob- 
servable to the stranger. But shall it .still remain ? Is 
there no t-rirard — no Astor — among our millionaires, who 
will leave behind them a moniunent which .shall make 
their names dearer and more honored in all coming time, 
than those of heroes and conquoi-ers ? 

SOCIETIES. 

The Masonic fraternity in New Orleans appears to enjoy 
all their ancient privileges. There are some sixty-five lodges, 
besides a grand lodge and an encampement. Here is a large 
niunber of the order of Odd Fellows, and one of Equal 
Fellows — a Tyijographical Union, and Mechanics, 
Hibernian, St. Andrews, German, and Swiss societies. 
These are all, more or less, of a benevolent natui'e ; and 
within theu' own circles, have all been extremely service- 
able. 

TlIU MISSISSIPPI. 

The navigation of the Mississipi, even by steamboats, in 
1818, was extremely tedious. The Etna is I'ccorded as ar- 
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thirty-two days. The Governor Shelby in twenty-two days, 
was considered as a reiuark.ibly short passage. An her- 
maphrodite brig was seoenty one days from New Orleans — 
and a keel boat one handred and one ; the latter to Louis- 
ville. Now the time occupied is /owr \ci five days. 

During the business season, which continues from the 
first of November to July, the levee, to the extent of five 
miles, is crowded with vessels of all sizes, but more espec- 
ially ships, from every part of the world — with hundreds 
of immense floating castles and palaces, called steamboats ; 
and barges and flatboats innumerable. No place can 
present a more busy, bustling scene. The loading and un- 
loading of vessels and steamboats — the transportation, by 
some three thousand drays, of cotton, sugar, tobacco and the 
various and extensive produce of the great West, strikes 
the stranger with wonder and admiration. The levee and 
piers that range along the whole length of the city, ex- 
tending back on an average of some two hundred feet, are 
continually covered with moving merchandize. This was 
once a pleasant promenade, where the citizen enjoyed his 
delightful morning and evening walk ; but now there is 
scarcely room amid hogsheads, boxes and bales, for the 
business men to crowd along, without a shai'p lookout for 
his personal safety. 

COMMERCIAL EMPOIMint. 

The position of New Orleans, as a vast commercial em- 
porium, is uni'ivalled — as will be seen by a single glance at 
the map of the United States. As the depot of the West, 
aiad the half-way house of foreign trade, it is almost im- 
possible to anticipate its future magnitude. 

Take a view, for instance, of the immense regions knoivn 
under the name of the Mississippi valley. Its boundaries 
on the West are the Rocky Moiuitains, and Mexico ; on the 
South, the Grulf of Mexico ; on the East the Alleghany 
mountains ; and, on the North, the Lakes and British pos- 
sessions. It contains nearly as many square miles, and 
more tillable ground, than all continental Eui'ope, and, if 
peopled as densely as England, would sustain a population 
of five hundred millions — more than half of the piesent in- 
' habitants of the earth. Its sui'face is generally cultivable, 
j and its soil rich, with a climate varying to suit all pro- 
I ducts, for home consumption or a foreign market. The 
j Mississippi is navigable twenty-one hundred miles — passing 
j a small portage three thousand may be achieved. It em- 
I braces the productions of many climates, and a mining 
I country abounding in coal, lead, iron and copper ore, all 
in veins of wonderful richness. The Missouii stretches 
thirty-nine hundred mUes to the Great Falls, among the 
Flat Foot Indians, and five thousand miles from New Or- 
leans. The Yellow Stone, navigable for eleven hundred 
miles, the Platte for sixteen hundi'ed, and the Kansas for 
twelve hundred, are only ti'ibutaries to the latter river. 
The Ohio is two thousand miles to Pittsburgh, receiving 
into her bosom from numerous streams, the products of 
New York, Pennylvania, Ohio, Kentucky, Western Vir- 
ginia, Tennesee, Indiana, and Illinois. The Arkansas, Big 
Black, Yazoo, Red Rivei', and many others, all pouring 
their wealth into the main .artery, the Mississippi, upon 
whose mighty ciu'rent it floats down to its gi-and reservoir, 
New Orleans. 



ALGIERS. 



DRY nOCKrS. 

For the repair of shipping and river craft, our port is 
supplied with several extensive dry docks along the 
Algiers Levee. 

THE OCE.\N DOCK. 

This is located near the landing of the First and Second 
District feri'yboats at Bartholomew street. It is 20:J feet 
long in the clear and 60 feet beam, with capacity for a ship 
of a thousand tons, 22.5 feet keel and drawing fifteen feet. 
For the service of the dock there is a steam saw mill, and 
a smith's shop is also attached. The number of mechanics 
and laV)orers employed during a busy season is from fifty 
to one hundred. The officers of the Ocean Dock company 
for 1872 were Messrs. Spencrr Field, President and Treas- 
urer, ,1. B. Williams, Secretaiy and F. G. Mackie and J. F. 
Follett. Managers. 

THE MARINE DOCK. 

This adjoins the Ocean Dock below, and has a. front of 
500 feet by 250 feet deep. It has c-apacity for a ship of 
1600 tons. The two Peruvian Monitors were recently re- 
paired in this dock. The officers of the company are 
Messrs. S. Hopkins, Jr., President ; C. E. Morrison, Sec- 
retary and J. Geddes, Trea.surer. 

THE VALLETTE DOCK. 

This is located at the foot of Vallette street, a block 
below the landing of the Third District ferry. It has a 
frontage of about 100 feet on Patterson street, with a 
depth of 200 feet to the river. The dock is 315 feet long 
by 84 feet beam, with capacity for the largest ships that 
come into this port. It employs a blacksmith shop and a 
saw mill, with several gangs of saws. From 75 to 150 men 
are employed in ship building and repairing. The dock is 
owned by a joint stock company, mider the special man- 
agement of Messrs. Fran(;ois V'allette and Octave F. Val- 
ette, Paul Fouchy, President ; and Roger T. Boyle, 
Secretary. 

THE GOOD INTEXT DRY DOCK. 

This is located just above the Algiers landing of the 
Canal street ferry. The grounds of the company have a 
river frontage of one and a half squares and a depth of 150 
feet. The dock measures 200 feet in length by 50 feet in 
breadth inboard. The works employ from 60 to 100 men. 
The affairs of the company are managed by foui- directors, 
the present being Messrs. S. Hoj^kins, Ji\, G. Busing, Her- 
mann Scliroe<ler, Secretary, and John H. Reiners. 



The manufacture of ice. in New Orleans, is now sueccss- 
fully and profitably carried on. A view of the works is to 
be found on another page, and will give some idea of the 
extensive scale on wiiicli the business is conducted. 



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HON. CHARLES GAYARRE. 



This distinguished Louisianian, whose historical and 
literary laboi's have made his name familiar to the literati 
of this country and of Euroj)e, was born in Ifew Oi'leans 
in isOl. He is of mixed Spanish and French descent, 
his paternal ancestor, Don Esteban Gayarre, having come 
here in 1766 with Governor Ulloa as (Ivtttfi.d or Comp- 
troller of the province of Louisiana, which had jiist then 
been ceded by France to Spain. His gi'and-mother in the 
female line was the daughter of Destrehau, who, for a long 
time, had been the treasiu-er of the colony under the 
Fi-ench, and his maternal grand-father was Etienne Bore, 
who was the fir.st to make sugar in Louisiana in 179.T, and 
was Mayor of New Orleans luider the French Republic in 
1803. Among his ancestors were also the Grandjjres who 
were the companions of Bienville and Iberville, and whose 
descendants occupied important military positions iinder 
the French and Spanish dominions. Charles Gayarre was 
educated at the " College d'Orleans " then condiicted by 
Lakanal, the celebrated member of the French Convention, 
who was then an exile in Louisiana. In this college some 
of the most distinguished men of this state received their 
diplomas. In 1826, !Mr. Gayarre went to Philadeljjhia and 
studied law in the office of William Rawle, then at the head 
of the bar of that city and well known as the author of an 
excellent work on the constitution of the United States. 
In 1829 the subject of this sketch was admitted to the bar, 
and in 1830 he returned to Louisiana, where he published, 
in French, an " Historical Essay on Louisiana." In the 
same year, he was almost unanimously elected to the State 
Legislature, and wa.s chosen by that body to write the com- 
plimentary address sent by them to the French people on 
the occasion of the Revolution of 1830. He was appointed 
assistant Attorney General in 1831, and two years later, he 
was called to the office of presiding judge of the City Coui't 



of New Orleans. In 1835, although he was a Democrat, 
and the Whigs had a majority of the legislature, Mr. Gay- 
arre was elected to the Senate of the U. S. for six years, 
thi-ee of his political ojiponents having voted for him. Un- 
fortunately the wretched condition of Mr. Gayarre's health 
prevented hun from taking his seat, and in obedience to the 
advice of his physicians, he had to go to Em-ope, where he 
remained until the end of 1843. Shortly after his retui-n 
he was elected to the legislature from the city of N. 0., and 
carried several important measures, among others a bill to 
provide for the liabilities of the State, whereby a reduction 
of two millions and a half of the State debt was effected 
dui'ing Gov. Mouton's administration. Having been re- 
elected in 1846, he accepted the office of Secretary of State 
tendered to him by Gov. Isaac Johnson, an office of very 
great importance and responsibility at the time, as in addi- 
tion to his other duties, the Secretary of State was ex officio 
Stiperintendent of Public Education, and constituted jointly 
with the State Treasiu-er, the "Boai'd of Currency." In this 
laborious position, the multifarious duties of which he dis- 
charged with gi'eat benefit to the State, Mr. Gayarre re- 
mained till 18.53, having been re-appointed by Govei'nor 
Walker in 1850. Dui'ing that period, !Mr. Gayarr6 pub- 
lished in two volumes a " History of Louisiana," in the 
French language, and in which all the most interesting and 
curious documents he had collected from the archives of 
France were textually reproduced. He also published 
through Harper & Co., of New York, a series of lectures 
in English under the title of the " Romance of the History 
of Louisiana." 

The State library of Baton Rouge, with its valuable his- 
torical works and documents collected by Mr. Gayarre 
during his seven years term of office, was almost totally 
destroyed dui-ing the war. A few j ears before that event, 
Mr. Gayarre had succeeded in obtaining from the Spanish 
government important documents from the archives of 
the Kingdom, the substance of which he embodied in his 
" History of Louisiana," in three volumes, octavo, embrac- 
ing the French, Spanish and American regimes, fi-om the 
earliest settlement of the colony to the year 1861 — a work 
which may justly be considered as the most valuable con- 
tribution ever made to the history of oui' State. This work 
has already passed through several editions. After a brief 
connection with the American or Know-nothing party, 
which he left at once when his effoi-ts to .strike out the anti- 
catholic plank of their platform proved unavailing, and an 
unsuccessful run for Congress as an independent candidate, 
Mr. Gayarre supported the candidacy of President Pierce, 
and his name was prominently mentioned in connection 
with the Mission to Spain on the accession of the new ad- 
ministration. That appointment, however, having been 
firgt tendered to Senator Soule, ^Ir. !Marcy, then Secretary 
of State, oiTered to Mr. Gayarr6 the position of Assistant 
Secretary, just then created, and in which his extensive 
knowledge of Eui-opean affaii-s and fine linguistic attain- 
ments would have proved eminently useful to the Admin- 
istration. His offer, howevr- , was declined by Mr. Gay- 
arre. In 1861, Mr. Gayarr<j, having been called upon for 
his views on the right of Secession, addressed an immense 
meeting of citizens at Odd Fellows' Hall, taking a .strong 



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JNTIESX'^T' OfLXj:E3.^\.lNrS. 



United States Depositofj & Financial Agent, 



JOSEPH H. OGLESBY, President, 

A. LURIA, Cashier. 



IDII^ECTOPIS: 



J. F. D. LANIER, 
J. N. LEA, 
JULIUS VAIRIN. 



W. A. JOHNSON. 
T. L. AIREY, 
W. J. FRIERSON, 



JOSEPH H. OGLESBY. 



Incorporated, December 30th, 1865. 



Commenced Business, January 18th, 1866. 



CAPITAL STOCK, $1,000,000. 



BwM^'v,wB FwMBs $tm» oao* 



Total Net Earnings, Commencement of Business. lexclnsive of taxes] to 
July 1, 1872. $712,272.37. 

Total Dividend!, Commencement of Business, [eiolnaive of taxes] to 
Jnly 1, 1872, $530,000. 



JEWELL'S CRESCENT CITY ILLUSTRATED. 



State rights view of the subject. During the war, Mr. 
Gayarr6 advocated the arming of the slaves and the con- 
chision of a treaty with England and Franco recognizing 
the independence of the Soutliern Confederacy on the basis 
of a gradual emancipation of the African race. In 1866, 
when Louisiana was j)resumed to be reconstructed, Mr. 
Gayarrc's name was put forward by his friends in the Leg- 
islature, and came within a few votes of obtaining the honor 
of an election to the United States Senate — Messrs. Randal 
Hunt and G. Williamson, his successful competitors, having 
been denied admittance to that body. Since the war, Mr. 
Gayarr6, besides the last volume of his great historical 
work on Louisiana, has published a "■History of Philip II," 
of Spain — a work of great research and sound liistoi-ical 
philosophy and a novel based on the eai'ly history of Louisi- 
ana, "Fernando de J^nws," which has elicited great pi'aise 
from all the literary joiirnals of the country. He is now pre- 
paring for publication, another historical novel, "Aubert 
Dubayet," in which the hero goes through the American 
Revolution of 1776 and the French revolution of 17S9. It 
will doubtless prove highly interesting, and give ample 
scope to the writer's wide field of information and fertility 
of conception. 



HON. MILES TAYLOR. 



This gentleman, who is one of the best civil lawyers in 
this State, was born in New York about sixty years ago. 
He is small of stature, gray haii'ed, fair complexioned and 
bright eyed. 

When quite young he came to this State and devoted 
his attention to the study of the law. He passed an excel- 
lent examination before the Supreme Court, and obtained 
his license to j)ractice. As Mr. Taylor had previously 
studied pharmacy, old .Tudge Ilsley with naivet6 said at the 
time of his admission to the bar, that Mr. Taylor wou.ld be 
unrivaled in bringing an apothecary (hypothecary) action. 

Mr. Taylor has proved to be one of our most eminent 
lawyers. He is certainly a gentleman of vast talents, pro- 
foundly read in law, and trained to grapple closely with 
every question. He is distinguished for grace and ease of 
manner, and for happy and polished address. 

He exerts great influence on the mind and affection of 
those who know him. 

He is a good speaker, clear and coi'rect in diction. 
Endowed by nature with a (juick and vigorous understand- 
ing, his arguments are vivid, and he shows in all the cases 
intrusted to him, honesty of pui'pose, earnestness and 
faithfulness. Even at his advanced age he is most diligent 
and attentive to business. 

Mr. Taylor has represented Louisiana in the Congress of 
the United States when that body contained the most 
brilliant array of ability ever seen in any deliberate assem- 
bly. He there distinguished himself as a polished debater, 
achieved a high position, and stood on the same plane as 
the most prominent stateman who adorned the halls of the 
National Legislatui'e. 

The St. Mary's Market fronts on Tchoupitoulas street 
and runs to New Levee. It was completed in 1 836 in the 
rusticated Doric order at a cost of about $48,000. 




MAYOR .JOHN L. LEWIS. 



Of all the memliei's of the old population of New Orleans, 
there is no one who is better known, and more universally 
esteemed by all classes, than the subject of this sket<;h. 
John Lawson Lewis is the son of Judge Lewis, who was 
appointed to the Sppreme Bench of the then Territory of 
Orleans by Thomas Jefferson, immediately after the pur- 
chase of Louisiana from France. Mr. Lewis was then only 
three years old, and was brought up at the school of Mr. 
D'Hebecourt, on the old Bayou Road, where he had for his 
schoolmates many of the Creoles who afterward took a 
leading part in the politics of the State, and afterward com- 
pleted his studies at the Academy of the Rev. James F. 
Hull, on Canal street. In 1819, young Lewis left school 
and read law under his father, entering shoi-tly after the 
office of Martin Gordon, Sr., then Chief Clerk of the First 
District Court, to which position he succeeded upon the 
resignation of Mr. Gordon, in 1826. In 1842, John L. 
Lewis was unanimously elected Commanding General of 
the First Division of the TiOuisiana Militia, an office for 
which he was peculiarly fitted by his previous military 
training and his great personal influence, and to which he 
was invariable re-elected without the shadow of an oppo- 
sition. In 1845, he ran as an independent candidate for 
the Shrievalty of the Parish of Orleans, and though oj)- 
posed by several of our most popular citizens, was rijturned 
at the head of the poll. So ably did he administer the 
office, that on three successive occasions he was re-elected 
by handsome majorities, sometimes in the face of a for- 
mid.able party opposition, and when, some years lati-i-, an 
effort was made to defeat the hitherto invincible A. D. 
Grossman, Gen. Lewis accepted the nomination of the 
Democratic; Party for the Mayoralty, and although the 
ticket upon which he ran was beaten, so great was his jier- 
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by a small majority. When the war broke out Gen. Lewis, 
although not liable to military service, promptly oifered 
his sword to the Confederate Government, and served 
throughout the war with great gallantry and distinction in 
the Trans-Mississippi Department. As a puljlic officer, 
Gen. Lewis has always maintained the reputation of an 
able, courteous and incorruptible public servant. A high- 
toned, affable gentleman, ever generous and open-handed 
whenever his means allowed him to indulge the warm im- 
pulses of his nature, few men of his generation can claim 
a larger circle of attached friends, or after occupying so 
many responsible positions, are able to exhibit more unex- 
ceptionable record than John L. Lewis. 

The following letter, written by Gov. H. W. Allen to 
Gen. Lewis, soon after the battle of Mansfield, shows the 
high estimation in which Gen. Lewis's services were held 
by that distinguished official : — 

SiinEVKPORT, La., April 27. ISdJ. 
Gen. Lewis : 

My Dear Stu. — 1 have just liciud Irom you through Mr. Waa- 
ner. I am rejoiced to hear that you are doiug well. I sent niy 
Surgeon-General down to take care of you. He reported that you 
were doing well. 

Receive my thanks, my dear sir. and the thanks of T.nnisiana for 
your gallant conduct on'the lialtle-tield of one i.f lli.- 1m-i inu^lit 
battles of this Wiir. If you visit Slircvepoit, diMi..i tail I" ■ all on 
me. I shall be glad to receive you at the F.xiM 111 i\ I- Mau-iou ami 
extend all the courtesy due a bravo i^atrioi ainl gallant soldier. 
Very truly your 
(Signed.) 



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Henkv W. 
I Geii. John L. I>e\vis, Manslicld, La. 



lit -rvvalll, 

Ai,i.i;x. Guv. Louisiana. 



ROBERT :\rOTT ESQ. 



Is a native of Baltimore, Md., of fair complexion, classi- 
cal featiu'es, of commanding appearance and about fifty- 
seven years of age. He is open and above everything like 
dissimulation, warmly affectionate and steadfast in friend- 
ship. 

As a lawyer, the clearness of his statement presents at 
once a picture to the mind. In his arguments he appeals 
forcibly to strict reason, and his tone, though deferential 
and courtly, is manly. He indulges very sparingly in 
declamation. 

He is one of the best civil, commercial and chancery 
lawyers in this State, with an uncommon capacity for 
effective and untiring industry. His legal studies have 
been comprehensive. He writes with great facility and 
cleverness, exhiliiting philosophical researc:h and maturity 
of judgment. 

Several years ago. he sei'ved as a member in the State 
Legislature of Louisiana with much ability. After our 
late war, lie went to Europe and visited the principal cities 
of the Old AVorld. 

Mr. Mott is now in tlie full vigor of all his faculties, ac- 
tive in his movements and in turning off business with as 
much ease as when he entered public life thirty years ago. 
He is kindly in his disposition, so as to devote some of his 
time and resources to making others happy — domestic and 
affectionate in his habits, and religious without intolerance. 

Ho is a cautious and safe counselor, a diligent man of 
busin(>ss, punctual to his appointments, regular in the dis- 
tribution of his tim(% never suffering pleasure or distraction 
of any kind to interfere with his duties. 




.JOSEPH H. OGLESBY 



Is DESCENDED from Scottish ancestry. His father, the 
Rev. .Toseph Oglesby, D.D., was born in West Moreland, 
Vu-ginia, the native county of Washington and Lee. His 
mother, Elizabeth Hite, was born in the Valley of the 
Shenandoah. His grandfather removed to Kentucky, and 
the father and mother of Mr. Oglesby subsequently re- 
moved from Kentucky to Madison, in Indiana, at which 
place the subject of this sketch was born September 14, 
18-2-2. In ] 839, Mr. Oglesby came to New Orleans, and was 
employed as a clerk in the house of Hyde & Comstock, 
Poydras street. In the year 1842, Mr. Comstock retired, 
and at the early age of twenty, Mr. Oglesby became a 
partner in the Western produce commission house of Hyde 
& Oglesby. The hotrse did a large and iJrofltable business, 
and upon the withdrawal of Mr. Hyde, was continued un- 
der the style of Oglesby & McCaulay, which was a leading 
house in the Western trade, at the declaration of ci>il hos- 
tilities in 186L 

Upon the termination of the war, Mr. Oglesby resumed 
business under his own name, in the same street in which 
he has been engaged in the same trade for a period of 
about thirty years. Perhaps few cities have undergone 
the same mutations of commerce within the same period. 
An inspection of the Directory of 1856, shows that of about 
300 firms engaged in the commission business at that date, 
only eleven exist at present under the same style, while 
very few of the membei-s who composed these firms are in 
business.? at all. To have pursued the same business, in the 
same community, amid such vicissitudes of commerce, and 
for so long a period, displays a sound texture of character 
and systematic business habits. After a period of mercan- 
tile probation so long and so successftil, it was natural that 
Mr. Oglesby should have been promoted to the charge of 
the associated interests of his fellow merchants. The 
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preciation was, of com-se, his election as President of the 
Chambei" of Commerce, in which office he is now serving 
his second term. 

In 1869, lie was elected President of the Lonisiana 
National Bank, one of our largest financial institutions. 
x\.s we believe much of the capital stock has been sub- 
scribed abroad, the appointment shows that the reputation 
of Mr. Oglesby is appreciated by other commercial com- 
munities besides his own. In the same year he was chosen 
President of the Commercial Insurance Company, of New 
Orleans. He was also tendered, at the same period, the 
office of Mayor of the City of New Orleans, and was 
solicited by citizens, without distinctiim of party, to accept 
it. This important position he was, after much delibera- 
tion and in consequence of official and domestic obliga- 
tions, compelled to decline. The discharge of the trusts 
accepted by Mr. Oglesby with the superintendence and 
consultations of his own commercial house demands very 
unusual faculties. It requires moreover that extended 
experience which, by knowing and being known to the 
men and commerce of a community, assui'es accuracy and 
dispatch of administration. Nothing except the combina- 
tion of these qualities could enable Mr. Oglesby to wield 
the vast and complicated duties so conferred upon him. 
This, however, he seems to do with comparative ease. He 
has even, by dint of systematic organization and judicious 
choice of subordinates, been enabled to spare extended 
portions of the years 1869-70-71 to be devoted to a tour in 
Europe. In addition to the education of his children and 
the care of the health of Mrs. Oglesby, he has thus had an 
opportunity to observe the commercial and social systems 
of other countries. It may be mentioned at this point that 
Mr. Oglesby married Miss Margaret Hendricks. This es- 
timable lady died August 24, 1871, at Paris, France, leaving 
to her afflicted husband the comparative consolation of a 
family of interesting and well-reared children. 

Ml'. Oglesby has been enabled by his expei'ience at home 
and his observations abroad to render to New Orleans in- 
valuable services toward the restoration of her commerce. 
The extraordinary result to which we have advei'ted else- 
sewhere, by which an artificial system of transportation 
has wrested from New Orleans so much of her natural and 
immediate territory, has compelled her to adopt a counter- 
vailing economy and dispatch in conducting the trade of 
Ihis debateable region; no one has been more sagacious 
than Mr. Oglesby in perceiving this inevitable conflict, or 
more prompt in adopting a counteracting commercial 
strategy. The ancient mode of receiving, storing, and for- 
warding by produce sail vessels, no longer met the demands 
(if the interior. Even a port of the cotton crop immedi- 
iti'ly adjacent to our mai'ket began to feel the influence of 
these competing facilities. The Western surplus of provi- 
sions once exclusively exported, foreign and coastwise, 
through our poit, was taken (icronA- direct to Eastern Atlan- 
tic ports for exportation, while the European imports, con- 
.siwied in the interior, took the same route. This formidable 
invasion rendered necessary the construction of new and 
the extension of incomplete railroads into Louisiana, 
Texas, and ^lexico. It also riMjuired improvi'd facilities 



of importation and transmission of goods in bond. It was 
also necessary to establish close coimection between the 
rail and river, with all other facilities for protection and 
dispatch of commodities in transit, as employed by our 
competitors elsewhere. 

It b(^came necessai-y to establish a cheap and cei-tain 
transportation by river Vjarges, the storage, tran.sfer, and 
shelter of bulk grain and other products by elevator, with 
an organization of ocean steam line adequate to the dis- 
patch of our sta[>le crops, and other commerce. To each 
and all of these Mr. Oglesby has given the influence of his 
appi'obation and the aid of his capital. It is under such 
auspices that New Orleans bids fair to replace the com- 
merce of which she has been despoiled, with an infinitely 
greater, for which she can never fear a rival. In enumer- 
ating the men who have contributed signally to maintain 
and advance the commercial destinies of our city, it is oui' 
dvity to assign a most prominent position to Joseph H. 
Oglesby, Esq.- AVith unimpaii'ed health and energies, and 
enlarged ca^jacity for continued usefulness, we may enjoy 
the benefit of his counsel and action until the crisis of 
commercial competition .shall have passed from New 
Orleans, and the object of her restoration effected. 

THOMAS H. KENNEDY, ESQ. 



Judge Thomas H. Kexnedy is an eminent jurist and a 
man of iinblemished honor. 

He was born in New Orleans, and is now neai-ly fifty 
years old. He is of slight but manly form, black hailed, 
with high and broad forehead and eagle eyes. 

He is thoroughly acquainted with the ancient and mod- 
ern writers, and speaks several foreign languages fluently. 

With cultiu'e, a keen intellect and much force of character, 
he is always prepared for a full discharge of his duties. 

The genial current of his soul is not frozen bj- calculat- 
ing policy. He loathes the cold and sordid propensity of 
clinging to power so epidemic in our day. 

Endowed witli the highest faculties of the understanding, 
despising all the surface accomplishments that dazzle the 
vulgar, he has an immovable fortitude in all those situa- 
tions in which human weakness is most apt to yield. 

His devotion to the maintenance of p)rinciple is embel- 
lished by modesty. These rare qualities are not only worthy 
of admiration, but of imitation in this degenerate age. 

This true and worthy gentleman acts always .so as to sat- 
isfy his own conscieiice. How very few like him ! 

Judge Kennedy is not only a man of firm mind and 
steadily fixed pi'inciples, but he is also a person of great 
accomplishments and excellent abilities as a lawyer. 

Educated in the study of the ei\^il law at one of our best 
colleges, he resided long enough in Europe to perfect his 
leai'ning in all the ordinary branches of education. 
Those of our readers who are personally acquainted with him 
will bear me witness that he is the most unpretending of men. 
His abilities and virtues make him an ornament of society. 

He was for many years before om* late war Judge of the 
Thii'd District Court. At that time it was a high honor 
to occupy such a position, because the judicial ermine was 
then kept in all its purity. Since then how many changes ! 



JEWELL'S CRESCENT CITY ILLUSTRATED. 



LA. EQUITABLE LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY. 



NEW ORLEANS GAS-LIGHT COMPANY. 



The business of Life Insm-ance in this country is of such 
recent gi-owth that few people appreciate its importance 
and greatness. Beginning only about a quarter of a cen- 
tui'y ago from the most slender foimdation it has grown into 
mammoth proportions. The combined assets of the va- 
rious companies is estimated to exceed $250,000,000 with an 
amount of insiu-ance at risk exceeding §3,000,000,000. 
The annual income exceeds a himdred millions of dollars. 
The influence of these corporations outside of the good they 
do to the widows and orphans of deceased policy holders, 
is paramount in every place that they are located. Their 
funds requiring prompt and speedy investment furnish 
means for commercial and industrial enterprises that 
otherwise might not have been initiated. 

It was plainly seen after the war that one of the surest 
ways of rebmlding the prosperity of the South was the es- 
tablishment of Home Life Insurance Cos. It was with this 
view that in the year 1868 a number of the most prominent 
gentlemen in New Orleans formed the Louisiana Equitable 
Life Insui-ance Co. under the management of Joseph Elli- 
son Esq. an old time merchant of this city and one of its 
best known citizens as President, and Wm. P. Harper as 
Secretary ,the Company began its career and notwithstanding 
the opposition it met with it steadily kept on its way, daily 
adding to its list of customers, and finding fresh favor in 
the eyes of the community and particularly of tho.se who 
felt it their interest and duty to sujjport Home Institiitions. 
In the latter part of 1870 the official staff of the Company 
was increased by the appomtment of Mi'. Wm. C. Robbins 
as Manager of Agencies. Mr. Robbins' long experience in 
the business was of great value to the Company, and under 
his intelligent management its business grew rapidly and 
was extended into the adjacent states. In Sejitember 1872, 
owing to the resignation of Messrs. Ellison and Harper, 
Mr. James H. Low, fonnerly of the &rm of Wood & Low, 
and Wm. Henderson, Esq., were respectively elected to 
the positions of President and Secretary. These gen- 
tlemen, in conjunction with Mr. Robbins have, by their 
earnest efforts, placed the Company in a position worthy of 
the city that gave it birth. The Board of Du'ectors are 
composed of the first business men of the city. Theu' 
names are known throughout the whole country and give 
it a standing wherever it may be introduced. The Company 
has, by its promptness in settlement of claims, and the 
liberality of its plans earned a well-deserved reputation 
and it would be safe to prophesy that the day is not far 
distant when the Louisiana EquitaVJe Life will stand among 
the foremost companies of the country. 



TivoLi Circle is an unornamented public ground, cir- 
cular in form and about 1.50 yards in diameter. It is sur- 
rounded by a wide pavement and is enclosed in an iron rail- 
ing with four gate-ways. The cux-le is capable of such 
improvement as will add greatly to the attractiveness of 
the locality and to the comfoi't of citizens. From this 
point St. Chailes street expands to double its width below 
the circle and becomes a broad and magnificent avenue. 
The New Masonic Temple, the Temple Sinai and the resi- 
dence of Andrew Smith Esq overlook this Circle. 



In 1822, when Baltimore was the only American city 
lighted by gas, James H. Caldwell, Esq., an enterprising 
citizen of New Orleans, constructed works here for lighting 
his theatre, the old American. A gas company was 
formed in 1820, but failing in compliance with the terms of 
its charter, it was soon dissolved. In 1833 Mr. Caldwell 
obtained a charter, and in the face of many difficulties, and 
by his own resources, he established the Gas Works on a 
large scale and on a pennanent basis. Mr. Caldwell also 
introduced gas in Cincinnati and Havana. He was long a 
member of the City Council, and foremost in measures of 
enterprise and public benefaction. The oddly soimding 
and usually mispronounced classical and mythological 
names of many of our streets above canal, were chiefly of 
Mr. Caldwell's suggestion while he was an aldennan and 
our Foui'th District a swamp. 

The New Orleans Gaslight and Banking Company was 
chartered by the General Assembly in 1835, with a capital 
stock of six million dollars. By this charter it was pro- 
vided that the Gas Works might be bought by the City after 
forty years. The charge for gas was at iii'st regulated by 
the time of burning ; afterwards meters were introduced. 
In 1860 an amendment to the charter limited the charge to 
S4 per thousand cubic feet of gas, required gas to be sup- 
plied to the Charity Hospital free, extended the temi of the 
Company to 1895 and withdrew the exclusive privilege of 
furnishing gas. The capital of the Company is now about 
two millions. The works, a mile from the river, are 
bounded by Gravier, Pedido, Magnolia and Locust streets, 
the slate roofed brick, buildings occupying the entire 
square. On the grounds are shops for blacksmiths, carpen- 
ters, and machinists, for the manufacture and repair of arti- 
cles and implements used, except the clay retorts, which are 
brought from Belgium, of which there are 200 in operation. 
The interesting process of making gas, differs in no essen- 
tial respect from the well-known method employed else- 
where, the coke and coal tar being utUized. To remove 
the carbonic acid and sulphuretted hydi'ogen gas, quick- 
lime is used made entirely of oyster shells. The Pittsburgh 
coal employed produces 10,500 cubic feet of gas per ton. 
The reservoh's are six in niunber the largest being of more 
than half a million cubic feet. 

The gas consumed in 1846 was 31,352,800 feet; in 1856, 
85,421,000 feet; in 1866, 174,649,000 feet; in 1871, 249,- 
417,000 feet. The present number of street lamps is 3476 ; 
of meters, over 10,000. The gas pipe in 1836, was eight 
miles in length; in 1846, 23 miles; in 1856, 61 J miles; in 
1866,-100 miles; and in 1872, 134^ mUes. 

The Presidents of the company were : in 1835 James 
H. Caldwell; in 1835-36, E. Yorke ; in 1836, Samuel Heen- 
nan, Jr. ; in 1836-37 and '38, Thomas Barrett ; in 1838-39 
and '40, Thomas C.Magoffin; from 1840 to 1S56, James 
Robb ; from 1856 to 1863, J. H. Wood ; in 1863, W. H. Mer- 
cer ; from 1863 to 1869, G. C.Duncan; from 1869 and 
present incumbent, James Jackson. 




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MAYOR JOHF E. CONWAY. 



John R. Conway was born in Alexandria, Vii-ginia, 
August 24th 1825. His ancestors were from Wales, and 
emigi'ated to the State of his nativity in the reign of 
Charles the Second. Their exists now among their de- 
seendents, family portraits brought over from England at 
the time of their settlement on the Potomac, antique relics 
of the days of the Stuarts, and prized as mementoes of the 
men who, in common with all Virginia, repudiated Crom- 
well and his Roundheads, adhering under all circumstances 
to t.he fortunes and dynasty of Chai'les the First and Charles 
the Second, and the Cavaliers of the Restoration. 

Mr. Conway came to New Orleans in December 1843, 
and actively engaged in a^ mercantile life, being connected 
with one of the largest Commission and Cotton firms in a 
position of great trust and responsibility to the time of the 
captiu-e of the City, in April 1862, by the Federal forces. 
Business being thenceforth suspended in all of its legiti- 
mate branches, and in common with his Sou^thern friends 
and neighbors, he made no effort to resume his own during 
the military occupation of the city. 

At the clos^ of hostilities in 1865 he again embarked in 
mercantile business as a AVholesale Grocer and Commission 
Merchant, which was successfully carried on up to 1867. 
During this time, and at all times since his residence in 
New Orleans, it was well luiown that he never considered 
it inconsistent with the business of a merchant to take an 
active part in public affairs, but on the other hand regarded 
it a duty to do so. Hence always acting in concei't with 
tlic Democracy, he was selected Chaii'man of the Demo- 
cratic Parish Committee on its first reorganization after the 
war. Cooperating with the State Executive Committee 
the way was prepared for returning the State and City to 
the representatives of tiie people, the latter at least having 
been for more than four years wholly under Military 
rulei's. 



On the reorganization of the City Government, he was 
appointed by Governor Wells a member of the Police 
Board, presided over by the newly selected Mayor, John 
T. Monroe. He served in this capacity until removed by 
General Sheridan under the Reconstruction Act. Under 
the Supplemental Reconstruction Act of Congress an elec- 
tion was held for municipal officers on the 17th and 18th of 
April 18()S. Mr. Conway having received the Democratic 
nomination for Mayor of New Orleans was elected by seven 
himdred majority. 

^ Mr. Conway being the first Mayor elected by the people 
since the occupation of the city by the Federal authorities, 
nece.ssarily found the afi'airs of the city in a complicated 
condition, and his administration of the city government 
was unavoidably attended by serious difficulties. The 
finances were in a deplorable condition and the credit of 
the city at a very low ebb. But with the substitution of 
the civil for military law, confidence was restored and 
gradually city securities improved in value, and fair prom- 
ise was held out that the financial stntiis of New Orleans 
would again reach that eminent standard it enjoyed before 
the war. 



HON. JOHN A. CAMPBELL. 



Hoy. John A. Campbelt^ was born in the State of 
Georgia. He gi-aduatod at Athens, in that State, in 1830, 
when twenty years of age. He is now sixty-five. He is 
above the medium size, has blue eyes, light complexion, 
expansive forehead and classical features. 

He was, before our late war for independence, one of the 
Judges of the Supreme Court of the United States, and in 
1865 represented the Confederate States, together with Mr. 
Hunter, of Virginia, and Mr. Stephens, of Georgia, in the 
interview had by them with Mr. Lincoln and Secretary 
Seward, at Hampton Roads, in order to bring about a com- 
promise between the North and the South. 

He possesses a most extraordinary memory, and fre- 
quently refers, when consulted upon a decision or authority, 
to the nvunber of volume and page in boolvs he has not 
handled for years. 

Judge Campbell is one of the greatest lawyers in the 
United States. He is certainly a most accomplished advo- 
cate. He confines himself to powerful argument and never 
indulges in declamation. His clearness of statement and 
the force and piecision of his language are remarkable. 
His manner is above the common order of forensic delivery. 
His wit is not genial or playful, but sarcastic. 

It is I'elated of Judge Campbell that being asked by a 
young attorney of New Orleans, not distinguished for his 
talents, whether he (Judge C.) had any objection to the 
attorney joining in a great case at that time conducted by 
Judge Campbell and other eminent lawyers, he answered : 
" Most certainly not, my dear sir, provided you do not 
appear on m side." 

His mind is eminently fertile in resoui'ces. He com- 
presses his matter vigorously and reasons cogently. 

He is known to be, in his personal character, of scmpu- 
lous integrity and unsullied honor. 



JEWELL'S CRESCENT CITY ILLUSTRATED. 



EDWARD H. SUMMERS, ESQ. 



If enterprise, public spirit, liberality, firmness and flevo- 
tion to the gi-eat interests of commerce, entitle any indi\-id- 
ual to respect and consideration in this community, no 
one is more richly deserving of them, than the unpretend- 
ing but influential gentleman, whose name stands at the 
head of this notice. 

Mr. Summers was born in Bullitt County, Kentucky, 
September 20th, 1827. We presume his father was in 
easy circumstances, able to give his son the advantages of 
a liberal education, for, after completing his preparatory 
studies, we find that he entered Bethany College, Virginia, 
where he graduated in July, 1848, at the early age of nine- 
teen years. 

His first intention was to pui'sue the law as a profession, 
for which he, accordingly, prepared himself, and graduated 
in the Law Department of Transylvania University, Lex- 
ington, Ky., in 1848. 

On attaining majority, he abandoned the law, and, in 
1850, devoted himself to mercantile business in Louis- 
ville. 

In 1853, he removed to New Orleans, where he has 
remained ever since, engaged in the commission business. 

In 1869, he was elected President of the Crescent City 
National Bank, which position he now holds. 

In 1871 Mr. Summers was chiefly instrumental in organiz- 
ing the New Orleans Cotton Exchange — the most important 
movement that has yet been made in this great court of 
commerce. In consequence of the energy which he dis- 
played in originating this important association, Mr. Sum- 
mers was elected its first President, and, at the annual 
election the second year, he was again elected. After two 
years service, he declined a reelection. On which occasion 
he made a speech distinguished for its ability and elo- 
quence, and which exhibits in glowing colors the important 
consequences which have resulted from this great move- 
ment of our mei'chants and which will be likely still fvu'ther 
to flow from it in promoting our commercial prosperity. 

We cannot better portray the traits which distinguish 
the character of this high-toned merchant than by giving 
some extracts from this admirable speech. The wretched 
condition to which New Orleans was reduced by the late 
unhappy war, and the necessity of resorting to some extra- 
ordinai-y measures for the extrication and the restoi'ation 
of its commerce is thus eloquently referred to by him. 

" When that long and devastating war," said Mr. Sum- 
mers, " was ended, we found our beloved city cripisled in 
her commerce on every side. The necessities of a mighty 
nation, battling against us, had greatly aided in tapping, 
at many points, the great artery of our commerce, the 
gi'and old Father of Waters, and our products were being 
taken from our very doors to the great Atlantic cities, 
where wealth, capital and prospeiity all invited them, our 
cotton factoi's, at the same time, found themselves embar- 
rassed by the indorsement of planters' paper, the. main 
security having vanished by the fate of war. 

" But we went to work with a will, scrttled oui- debts as 
best we could, and launched our little barks again into the 
great sea of connncrce. 



" Scarcely had we emerged into the open sea before the 
great storm of 1867 struck lis with all its force. Our 
planters, with the pittance left them, had gone to work in 
good earnest, and with the brightest hopes of a good 
harvest. The disastrous results you all know. Suffice it 
to say that this unexpected and most lamentable failure of 
crops, together with the heels of Federal, State and Parish 
Collectors, was more than our poverty-stricken plantei's 
could endure, and the result was wide-spread demoraliza- 
tion, bad faith and diversion of cro^js on all sides ; biit the 
cotton factors of this city had to breast this storm. We 
had to stand by our posts — to succumb was inevitable ruin. 
Our chief capital was our rmtarnished names, and I am 
proud to say that but few fell by the wayside. 

" This year, however, gentlemen, taught us a wise but 
sad lesson, and that was, in the then disorganized and 
demoralized condition of our country, our main reliance 
was in the integrity, capacity, industry and good manage- 
ment of our constituents. 

" It was absolutely necessary to separate the good from 
the bad ; and to accomplish this, union and good faith and 
hannony among ourselves were indispensable. And, this, 
gentlemen, was the main and direct cause of the establish- 
ment of this Exchange. 

" I am proud to say we were nobly seconded in our 
efforts by many of our prominent cotton buyers and cotton 
brokers, who, realizing that they had an interest in com- 
mon with the cotton factor in the prosperity of otu- city, 
and feeling moreover the necessity of jirojier rules and 
regulations for the government of the cotton trade, which 
could only be accomplished by union of all, most, heartily 
aided us in our efforts. And though we were met at the 
threshold by difficulties which would have disheartened 
and deterred a less I'esolute set of men, we never faltered. 
Every previous effort towards establishing an Exchange in 
this city had been a failure. 

" But nothing daunted, we worked faithfully, and man- 
fulh' explained the necessity, and expatiated upon the 
advantages of union, and we finally succeeded in getting 
together a sufficient number to justify an organization. 

" You honored me, at your first meeting, by electing me 
as your presiding officer ; and whilst appreciating your 
motives, I am free to say that I entered upon the discharge 
of my duties with many misgivings. But, gentlemen, you 
surrounded me with godfathers over this infant institution 
— merchants ot large business experience and sagacity, all 
animated by the same zeal, and fully conscious of the 
charge intrusted to them. 

" Then, gentlemen, after two years of service, I deliver 
back into your hands this predicted abortion, this weakly 
suckling, a two years old commercial giant. 

" During less than two years back, with an empty trea- 
siu-y, and a limited membership, we have regularly, daily, 
and, I may say, almost by the minute, furnished you with 
telegraphic news, embracing every point of the habitable 
globe where cotton was a prominent article of commerce. 
And, besides this, we have fuinished you daily a table of 
statistics unsurpassed, if not unequalled, by any Exchange 
either in Europe or America. 




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[ " And whilst we have accomplished this at a necessarily 
I heavy outlay, we return you to-nig-ht, as shown by the 
report of the Finance Committee, a surplus in our treasury 
of $43,234,80. 

" I proclaim it to-night, and with just groiuids for the 
assertion, that, under the auspices of the Cotton Exchange, 
which now embraces almost every respectable dealer in 
cotton, that no city, on this or any other continent, can 
handle this great staj)le with the same economy, the same 
ease, the same impartial justice as can the city of New 
Orleans. 

" I reiterate to-night what I said twelve months ago, that 
this Exchange presents an ' anomaly ' in the commercial 
history of the world, and to prove this, I have only to refer 
you to the report of ova- venerable Chief Justice of the 
Board of Errors and Appeals, read in your hearing this 
evening'. 

" Just think of it, gentlemen, receiving, storing and 
shipping one agricultural product, at our port, to the value 
annually of one hundred and twenty million dollars ; having 
control of this staple fi'om the time the seed is assigiied to 
mother earth, until the gathering of the harvest, and the 
final disposition of the product ; and yet, in all the various 
vicissitudes of this transposition, there is scarcely a ripple 
of contention or dispute among three hundred merchants 
handling and turning over the vast product. 

" I defy the Exchanges of the world to produce such a 
record ; and this, gentlemen, with our great cosmopolitan 
trade, embracing evei'y nation known to the category of 
civilization. I say the City of New Orleans can have no 
prouder escutcheon than the records of this Exchange. 

" But, gentlemen, this Exchange has not confined the 
sphere of its usefulness to the cotton interest alone. It has 
ever had a watchful eye to the gi-eat general commercial 
interest of this city, which is inseparably connected with 
the cotton intei-est of this great Southern emporium. 

" In evidence of this, need I point you to the gi'eat iron 
barge enterprise, which had its origin in this Exchange 
and though it now sleeps with a subscription of $300,000, 
is, just as sure as time rolls on, to be revived and culmi- 
nate in a magnificent fleet of cheap and safe and prosper- 
ous public carriers, bringing to us from the Alleghanies on 
the East to the Rocky Mountains on the West, the untold 
and most inestimable wealth of this great valley. 

" This grand enterprise had its origin, its support and 
its partial success under the auspices of this Exchange. 
Who, gentlemen, was it that set on foot the great iron 
highway that is destined to connect us with that vast 
domain of wealth, the State of Texas ? Was it not this 
Exchange that took Col. Scott, the great railroad king, by 
the hand, had him welcomed in omv midst, and pledged 
ourselves, individually and collectively, that we would span 
the chasm that separated us from this great highway to the 
Pacific Ocean ? 

" Was it not within the walls of this Exchange that the 
noted and efficient Rail Road Committee of Fifty had its 
birth ? And was it not through their unceasing labors 
that this gi-eat highway is guaranteed to us within the next 
twelve months 2 

" I have thus, gentlemen, passed in review the origin, 



advantages, labors and fruits of this Exchange— the first 
example in this city of the effect of imion and energy and 
self-reliance amongst ourselves. 

" After a service of two years, I beg, this night, to bid 
you an affectionate adieu as your presiding oificer, my 
business engagements, as also my ideas of rotation in ofliee, 
rendering it necessary and proper." 

Should the " Cotton Exchange," in its future results to 
our commerce, sustain the well-founded expectations of its 
public-spirited projector, (as it has done in its past brief 
career), he will be well entitled to the lasting gi-atitude of 
this community as a public benefactor. Though he has 
declined to act longer as its President, the same public 
considerations which, in the midst of doubt and discour- 
agement, led him to embark fearlessly in the enterprise, 
will, we are assured, induce him still to watch over its 
interests with ceaseless vigilance, and will enable him and 
the large body of intelligent merchants associated with 
him to redeem New Orleans from the sad consequences of 
the late war, and make her what, from her position, the 
spirit that animates her, and the energy and ability of her 
merchants, she is well entitled to be, the great cotton 
market of the world. He has himself only just reached 
the meridian of life, and a long career of usefulness still 
lies open before him. 



FATHER J. MOYNAHAN. 



This distinguished ecclesiastic was born in the Parish of 
Konturk, County of Cork, Ireland, on January 1st 1815. 
He received his English and Clasical education at Mission- 
ary College, Youghal, County of Cork, Ireland. 

In the year 1844, he emigrated to the United States of 
America, and finished his theological course of studies in 
the Diocese of New Orleans ; was ordained Priest on the 
24th of November 1846 ; and spent four years as Curate 
of the Parish of St. Joseph. He was afterwards deputed 
by the most Reverend Arch Bishop Blanc to build a church 
in what now constitutes one of the most flourishing Par- 
ishes in New Orleans in a locality which was origiuallj- a 
swamp, biit, at the present time, one of the most thronged 
portions of this great metropolis. 

On the 1st of January 1851, he embarked on his ardu- 
ous mission. People of every denomination ralUed aromid 
him and contributed liberally to the sacred object which 
he had at heart. The residt has been the erection of two 
chui'ches, oiie of them a brick edifice, now nearly completed, 
which is one of the most substantial and beautiful m the 
South. 

He has also established in the city two convents, and a 
parochial school for both sexes. Recently he has been 
clothed by Arch-Bishop Perche, with the fimctions of 
Canon, his duty as such, being to attend his Grace on all 
important occasions, be present at the Chapters of the Di- 
ocese, and act as one of his counsellors. 

Father Moynahan, notwithstanding his intense devotion 
to the interests of the Roman Catholic Chuz'ch, has, by his 
fine social qualities, the urbanity of his manners, the' lib- 
erality of his opinions, and the deep interest he has ex- 
hibited in (il.jcrts pi-omolive of the public welfare, secured 
in a lai^v ilr-ii-c. the homage as well as affections of his 
fellow ritizciis (it all classi-s and denomination. His pulpit 
eloquence partakes of the controlling elements of his char- 
acter, and is marked by boldness and intrepidity. 



JEWELL'S CRESCENT CITY ILLUSTRATED. 



NEW :masonic temple. 



On the 15th February 1872, was laid the corner-stone of 
the new Masonic Temple by the Grand Master, officers and 
members of the Grand Lodge of Louisiana in the presence 
of many hundreds of visiting brethren and citizens. After 
the solemn and ancient ceremonies, eloquent addresses were 
delivered by the Rev. W. V. Tudor and Grand Master 
Todd. The Grand Lodge being in session, the imposing 
rites attracted a large assembly of Masons and a vast con- 
course of citizens. The corner-stone was a block of granite 
from one of the mountains of Georgia and a present from 
the Masonic Grand Lodge of that State. The foundation 
walls have been laid in brick, resting on a basis of blue 
clay. 

The New Temple will be built accoi'ding to the design 
and plans of S. B. Haggart, Esq., the architect selected to 
supervise its consti-uction. It will front on St. Charles 
street, near the Tivoli Circle. Its dimensions will be as 
follows: — Front, 147 feet; depth, 92 feet; two wings 38 
feet wide and 84 feet deep, extending back nearly to the 
rear of Temple Sinai ; main portico, 30 feet wide, 9 feet 
projtction, extending through a vestibule 24 feet wide, 12 
feet deep and 20 feet high, having a beautiful tesselated 
floor and latticed doors. From these doors the passage, 
24 feet wide and 20 feet high, extends to the staircase 42 
feet, by which the second story is reached. On each side 
of the main enti ance are to be two stores 70x27* feet. At 
the rear, on each eide, are porticos leading by stairways to 
the corridor oa the second floor and to the lodge rooms on 
the third floor, as well as to the ladies' parlor and ball-room, 
In the north wing will be the office of the Grand Secretary, 
28x42, two library rooms 22x28 and 38x21 connected by 
arches, and in the rear the office of the Grand Master, 18 
feet square. In the south wing will be a kitchen, supper 
room, lumber room, etc. On the second floor of the main 
building is the ball-room or hall, 140 feet long, 70 feet wide, 
36 feet high, lighted by 19 windows, which extend from 
floor to ceiling and opening on broad balconies. By three 
vast doors the hall connects with the broad corridor across 
which, in the north wing, is the ladies' parlor, 28x42, which 
coromunicates with 3 large dressing rooms, a retiring room 
and a cloak room. From these, by brick walls, will be a 
gentlemen's 'parlor, 30x21 feet, a hat room and staircase 
extending to the saloon below. In the south wing, second 
story, is tlie supper room, 70x38, with butler's pantry and 
cook's pantry connecting with the kitchen below by dumb 
waiters and a staii-case. Over the hall are 5 lodge rooms, 
each 27x50 and IG feet high. The Grand Lodge room, 65x 
38 and 20 feet high, is the third story of the south wing 
with a raised gallery for music. In the north wing, over 
the parlors, are the appropriate rooms of the Grand 
Commandery. 

The Temple, when completed, will have an airy, graceful 
and elegant appearance, owing to the manner in which the 
walls are gatliored up into columns and pilasters and to 
vast windows and balconies. It will thus bccomi! a lofty 
and conspicuous ornament to that part of tlu' city, and a 
monument worthy of the ancient fratm'uity and tln' noble 
cause to which it is to be dedicated. 



Tbe details of structure may vary from the plans and 
dimensions as given above, according to the materials used 
and the funds available. 

Under the jurisdiction of the Masonic Grand Lodge of 
Louisiana there are now 152 subordinate lodges, with an 
aggregate membership of 7,557. Thirty of these are loca- 
ted and working in New Orleans, named as follows : — 
Perfect Union, Polar Star, Concorde, Perseverance, St. 
Andr6, Los Amigos del Orden, Silencio, Foyer Macjonique, 
Gennania, Friends of Harmony, Mount Moriah, George 
Washington, Dudley, Marion, Hiram, Alpha Home, Quit- 
man, Orleans, Hermitage, Louisiana, Ocean, Excelsior, 
Linnwood, Orus, Kosmos, Union, Orient, Dante, Perfect 
Harmony and Corinthian. The members of the city lodges 
number 2,700, or an average of 90 members to each lodge. 
The dates of the charters of the above-named city lodges 
are as follows: — Perfect Union, July 12, 1812; Polar Star, 
July 12, 1812; Concorde, July 12, 181- ; Perseverance, 
July 12, 1812; St. Andr6 (originally Disciples du Senate 
Ma(;onique), chartered June 3, 1839; took its present 
name Feb. 14, 1865 ; Los, Amigos del Orden, Sept. 24, 
1842 ; Silencio, Feb. 12, 1861 ; Foyer Ma(jonique: Oct. 6, 
1838; Germania, April 18, 1844; Friends of Harmony, 
April 22, 1848 ; Mount Moriah, March 24, 1849 ; George 
Washington, Dudley, Marion and Hiram, March 3, 1850 ; 
Alpha Home (a union of Alpha, organized in 1848 with 
Home, organized in 1855), chartered Feb. 14, 1860; Quit- 
man and Orleans, March 4, 1850 ; Hermitage, Jan. 21, 
1851 ; Louisiana, Jan. 23, 1851 ; Ocean, Feb. 10, 1857 ; Ex- 
celsior, Feb. 12, 1861; Linnwood, Feb. 13, 1861; Ours, 
Feb. 9, 1864; Kosmos, Feb. 9, 1864; Union and Orient, 
Feb. 17, 1865; Dante, Feb. 14, 1866; Perfect Harmony, 
Feb. 14, 1867 ; and Corinthian, Feb. 9, 1865. 

The Grand Lodge was founded by Perfect Union, Polar 
Star, Charite (extinct). Concord and Perseverance, in 1812, 
since which the Grand Lodge gi'anted charters to these 
original lodges and to 218 others. T\vent_y-three lodges, 
including Charite, have become extinct. Seventeen lodges 
have forfeited charters and 21 surrendered them. The 
oldest lodge in the State is Pei-fect Union, founded in 1793. 

The Grand Masters of the Grand Lodge have been as 
follows:— P. Francis Du Boiirg, 1812-13-14; J. Soulie, 
1815-16-17; L. C. Moreau Lislet, 1818; J. B. Modeste, 
Lefebore, 1819 ; y. Lemounier, 1820 ; Aug. Macarty, 1821 ; 
J. F. Canonge, 1822-24-29; D. F. Burthe, 1823; John H. 
Holland, 1825-26-27-28-30-31-32-33-34-35-38-39 ; L. H. 
F^rand, 1836-37 ; A. W. Pichot, 1840-41 ; Jean Lamathe, 
1842; E. A. Canon, 1843-44; Robert Preanx, 1845; 
Felix Garcia, 1846-47-48; M. R. Dudley, Lucien Her- 
mann, 1849; John Gedge and Lucien Hermann, 1850; Jno. 
Gedge, 1851; H. R. W. Hill, 1852-53; Wm. M. Perkins, 
1854^55-56-57-60; Amos Adams, 1868; Samuel Manning 
Todd, 1859-69-70-71-72; A. J. Norwood, 1867; H. R. 
Swasey, 1868 ; J. Q. A. Fellows, 1860-1-2-3-4-5. Of the 
Past Grand Masters Ave only are living — Perkins, Fellows, 
Norwood, Swasey and Todd. 

The Grand Secretaries of the Grand Lodge "have been as 
follows:— J. B. Gregoirc Veron, 1812-13-14; Auguste 
Guibert, 1815-10-17-18; N. Visinier (part of) 1819; F. 



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Dissard, remainder of 1819 and until 1840 ; L. H. Ferand 
(part of) 1840 ; P. Dubayle, 1841-42 and part of 1843 ; F. 
J. Verrier, 1843-44-45-16-47; W. H. Howard, 1848; J. J. 
E. Massicott, 1850 and part of 1851 ; Edward Barrett, 
1850-51-52-53; Samuel G. Risk, 1854-5-6-7-8-9-60-61; 
Samuel M. Todd, 1862-3-4-5-6; and Dr. Jas. C. Bachelor, 
1867-8-9-70-1-2. Barrett, Todd and Bachelor are the 
only living Past Grand Secretaries. 

The offices of Deputy Grand Masters, Senior and Junior 
Grand Warden and Grand Treasurer have been filled vari- 
ously by the following : — L. C. Moreau Lislet, J. Blanque, 
Francis Pernot, Jean Baptiste Pinta, Jean B. Des Bais, 
Dominique Roquette, G. Dubuzs, A. Peychand, G. W. 
Morgan, G. Leaumont, L. A. de Bodin, A. Longer, Charles 
Maurain, C. Miltenberger, M. Flertas, A. Morphy, D. F. 
Bui-the, J. B. Fagot, M. Fouche Cougot, Seth W. Nye, Jean 
Lamathe, Aug. Douee, Thomas Blois, Alexander Phillips, 
J. B. F. Giquel, Charles Revoille, F. J. Verrier, Joaquin 
Viosca, Frangais Coquet, J. J. Mercic, J. B. Lambert, 
Zenon Colson, Perez Snell, Cotton Henry, G. A. Montmain, 
Ramon Vionnet, Fleiuy Generelly, A. D. Guesoun, Paul 
Bertus, Francis Calonge, H. Kidel, Joseph Lisbony, Fran- 
cois Meilleur, Roman Brugier, Thomas B. Parten, Alexan- 
der Derbes, Thomas H. Lewis, W. P. Coleman, G. Gorin, 
Daniel Blair, Antoine Mondelli, Simon Meilleur, John W. 
Crockett, J. W. McNamara, George W. Catlett, R. F. Mc- 
Guire, W. L. Knox, S. Herriman, S. M. Hart, H. W. Hunt- 
ington, George D. Shadburn, D. Goodman, M. H. Dosson, 
Law P. Grain, Stephen C. Mitchell, Louis Texada, S. O. 
Scruggs, A. S. Washbui-n, Joseph Santini, A. G. Carter, 
John C. Gordy, Henry Regenburg, B. G. Thibodaux, S. J. 
Powell, Hannon Doane, George A. Pike, John Booth, Jolin 
C. Jones, John A. Stevenson, Sy G. Parsons, "William Mc- 
Duff, Amos Kent, John L. Ban-ctt,AVilliam Robson, John So- 
rapurn,Joseph P. Hornor, Michel E. Girard, Edwin Marks. 

Fifty-two of those who have held elective offices in the 
Grand Lodge are dead, and forty were living in 1872. 

COTTON SEED OIL WORKS. 



The manufactui'e of oil from cotton seed has been chiefly 
developed since the close of the war, and now every con- 
siderable Southern town has one or more factories, while 
New Orleans has six, employing a capital of a million and 
a half, and with capacity to use a hundi'ed thousand tons 
a year. The largest of these (and the largest in the world) 
is in the Fifth District or Algiers (New Orlean.s Right 
Bank), owned by a company and controlled by a Board of 
Directors, of which Col. C. E. Girardey, Auctioneer, is 
President. The conspicuous buildings occupied formerly 
constituted Clark's Foundry. This factory will produce 
500 barrels of oil and 400 tons of oil cake per week. The 
four brick buildings are connected and occupy a square of 
about four acres. Here the seed, which costs about S15 
per ton, is re-ginned to divest it of lint, often in sufficient 
quantity to be worth as much as the seed cost. The seed 
is next passed through a simple huller, consisting of a 
grooved cylinder by which the seed is crushed, and a sieve 
by which the hulls are separated from the kernels. The 



kernels are mashed or ground, roasted, placed in vats and 
pressed by steam, the oil running off into tanks, whence it 
is pumped into vats for purifying. The oil cake is ex- 
ported and is used for feeding cattle. The hulls are burned 
in the furnaces of the two 75 horse power engines or sold 
as fertilizers. The oil is purified by carbonate of soda and 
barrelled for shipment. What is precipitated by the 
process is reboiled and is used in the manufacture of .soap. 
The oil finds a ready market in Great Britain at prices 
ranging about fifty cents per gallon, where it is variously 
employed for chemical, mechanical, medicinal and house- 
hold piirposes, no small quantity finding its way back to 
Ameiica in the form of Olive Oil for table use. 

The only check to this lucrative industry is the difficulty 
of olitaining the cotton seed iu sufficient quantity. 

THE TOURO ALMS HOUSE. 



About eighty thousand dollars were left by the late opu- 
lent and public-spirited Judah Touro, Esq., for the erec- 
tion of an Alms House in this city. By judicious manage- 
ment this munificent bequest was increased, after the death 
of Mr. Touro, by R. D. Shepherd, Esq., to the amount of 
about SI 30,000, besides his making a donation of land 
worth about $45,000. The amount of cash in hand not 
being sufficient to meet the cost of the contemplated build- 
ing (estimated at from $165,000 to $200,000), Mr. Shepherd 
proposed to make up the deficiency. War interrupted the 
work, and the edifice, as far as completed, was destroyed 
by fire on the last day of its occupation by negi'o troops. 
Some evidence existed to show that the disaster was at- 
tributable to the use of an intended ventilation flue as a 
chimney for a large bake oven, by which fire was commu- 
nicated to the roof timbers. 

The ground donated by Mr. Shepherd was about 318 
feet wide from Piety to Desire street, Third District, and 
facing the river, extending about 746 feet. The main 
kitchen buildings, at the time of their destruction, were 
roofed in and floored, but not completed inside. They 
were three stories high, in the Gothic style' ranging from 
the pointed or early Gothic, in the centre, to square headed, 
or late Gothic, at the extreme wings, with the flattened arch 
or intermediate between, and stood 100 feet from the river 
road. The main building was 300 feet long by about 60 feet 
deep in the body of the structm'e, and 75 feet at the wings. 

The centre pavillion contained the main entrance, pal- 
lors, offices, etc., between which and the extreme wings 
were three stories of iron galleries on the river front. The 
kitchen building contained the dependencies. The design 
further contemplated surrounding the ground with work- 
shops for different industries, in which the inmates were 
to be kept occupied, while the intermediate space was laid 
off for orchards and vegetable gardens. 

It was also contemplated to light the buildings with gas 
manufactured on the premises. 

An unsuccessful effort has been made, since the war, to 
obtain an oppropriation from the General Government for 
the restitution of this expensive structure, destroyed while 
in the occupancy of Federal colored troops. 



JEWELL'S CRESCENT CITY ILLUSTRATED. 




MAYOR BENJAMIN FRANKLIN FLANDERS. 



The career of the late Mayor of New Orleaus lias 
been a very checkered one ; but if office in the United 
States is indicative of merit, he is entitled to much praise. 
It is both interesting and instructive to trace his history 
up to the period when he became the chief executive officer 
of this city. 

Mr. Flanders was born in New Hampshire in 1816, and, 
from the time of his arrival in New Orleans in 1842, he has 
been jirominently before the public in situations which re- 
quired ability, and which have served to test the extent of 
his powers. His first employment in New Orleans was 
that of a teacher in our public schools, and he appears to 
have been a principal teacher in what was then the Fii'st 
Municipality, but is now the Second District. How long 
precisely he remained connected with the schools we are 
unable to say, but it was not long, inasmuch as in 1844 we 
find him occupying the position of co-editor and projjrietor 
of the Tropic newspaper. In 1848 and 1849 he began to 
be connected with municipal affaii's, serving in the Council 
of the Third Municipality and again in 1851. 

In 1852 he was elected Secretary and Treasurer of the 
Opelousas Rail Road, a position which he held till January, 
1862. In July of the latter year, he was appointed City 
Treasurer by military aiithority, and was elected to Con- 
gress the following November. In 186.3 he received from 
Mr. Chase the appointment of Supervising Special Agent 
of the Treasury Department, which he held, without inter- 
ruption, till the year 1866. In 1864 he occupied for some 
time the post of President of the First National Bank of 
New Orleans. 

In June 1867, he was appointed Governor of the State 
by General Sheridan, but resigned the office the following 
December. 

In 1870 he became Mayor of the city, first by the ap- 
pointment of the Governor, and subsequently, in November 
1871, by election of the people. 



GABRIEL DEFfiRIET. 



Mr. Gabriel De Feriet is the oldest auctioneer and real 
estate agent now in the business in New Orleans, his con- 
nection as such dating as far back as 1836. Mr. De Ftriet 
is the oldest son of Louis Claude, Baron of Feriet, a French 
nobleman who came here during the Colonial period, and 
attained the rank of Captain under the Spanish dominion. 
A native of Nancy, (Loraine,) he manied Marcelite de St. 
Maxcent, a native of New Orleans, whose progenitors had 
settled here when Bienville laid the foundation of our city. 
Of this marriage Mr. G. de Feriet is the only surviving 
male issue. He received his education at the College of 
Father Martial, and subsequently went North in 1825, and 
completed his studies at the Lewisville Military Academy, 
in Lewis County, New York, then presided over by Col. 
Taylor. Returning to New Orleans in 1827, he went into the 
lumber business, and soon after received the appointment of 
Controller of the Treasui-y of the Thii-d Municipality, 
which office he held with great satisfaction to his constitu- 
ents, till 1836, when he was commissioned by Governor 
Roman, auctioneer for the City and Parish of New Orleans, 
a branch of business of which he is still one of the most 
prominent and successful members in this city. Although 
born in 1807, Mr. de Feriet retains all the ardor and energy 
of youth, and there is no one of a later generation who 
brings gi'cater enthusiasm into all matters of public inter- 
est. His ardent temperament and patriotic impulses, got 
him into trouble during the Butler regime, and he had to 
pay the penalty of his unyielding integrity by a long im- 
prisonment in the city, and was subsequently banished with 
many other estimable citizens, to the sand bank of Ship 
Island, by the "hero" of Fort Fisher. Mr. de Feriet is one of 
our most energetic, public spirited citizens, and desei'vedly 
enjoys the confidence and support of the old inhabitants of 
New Orleans, who understand and appreciate his many 
sterling qualities of head and heart. 



MR. JULES TUYES, 

President of the N. O. Mutual Insurance Co., was born in 
New Orleans in 1821, and after receiving his collegiate ed- 
ucation in Paris, commenced business as a clerk in the com- 
mission house of Messrs. Blanchard, Eimer & Co., a posi- 
tion he afterwards exchanged for a more responsible one in 
the Banking House of F. de Lizardi & Co., from which 
last situation he was promoted in 1845 to the office of Sec- 
retaiy of the Company, to preside over which he was 
elected in 1854. Mr. Tuyes is a gentleman of cultivated 
mind and refined habits, in whom great suavity of manners 
and kindness of heart, unite with strict integi'ity, 
and a nice sense of honor. These qualities have endeared 
him to a large circle of friends and acquaintances, who 
look upon him as the genuine type of the Creole gentle- 
man, ever eom-teous and straight forward in all his actions, 
and whose fair fame the breath of envy has never dared to 
touch. To his sterling qualities of heart and head mu<;h of 
the prosperity and success of the institution over which he 
80 ably presides may be fau'ly attributed. 



JEWELL'S CRESCENT CITY ILLUSTRATED. 



THE HOWARD ASSOCIATION OF NEW ORLEANS. 



No PLEASANTER duty can be assumed than that of record- 
ing the organization and progress of the Howard Associa^ 
tion of New Orleans, incontestably one of the noblest and 
worthiest of the philanthropic institiitions of the civilized 
world. The name of the illustrious English philanthropist, 
Howard, has, in many instances, in his own native country 
and in the United States, been the leading title of various 
charitable and humane institutions, but it is doubtful 
whether as much honor has been conferred upon the mem- 
ory of that great and good Samaritan as by its adoption by 
the Howard Association of this city. Perhaps the field of 
labor has contributed largely in entitling the city of New 
Orleans to claim superiority in this matter ; but whatever 
the causes, we are none the less gratified at the belief that 
we possess an institution whose deeds by far surpass those 
of any other similar one. 

Together with the Sisters of Charity — that exalted or- 
ganization of the Catholic Church — the Howard Associa- 
tion shares the highest praise of oui- citizens and of many 
strangers whose lives have been saved or wants supplied 
through the ministrations of this body of self-sacrificing 
gentlemen. While the Sisters of Mercy have a vaster mis- 
sion, it is nevertheless true that the Howard Association 
is a constant institution, the members of which are ready, 
at any moment, to answer the call of suifeiing humanity. 
Months, and, with the steadily improving wealth of New 
Orleans, years may come and pass, without even hearing 
the name of the Association referred to, until suddenly the 
dark cloud of disease lowers upon the city when the wel- 
come Samaritans, forgetting self, rush forward to bravo the 
tempest and pour forth sunshine from their glowing 
hearts. 

It was in 1837, in the month of August, when the Yellow 
Fever of that year became epidemic, that Farquhar Mathew- 
son, a young man, aged some twenty-two or three years, 
then a clerk in the establishment of Messrs Henderson & 
Gaines, a young man of active mind and ardent tempera- 
ment, such as fitted him to be a leader among the young 
men with whom he associated, suggested to his associates 
the propriety of forming an association of young men, for 
the purpose of aS'ording relief to the poor and distressed 
victims of the epidemic, who were without the means of 
procuring medicine or nurses. His suggestion was imme- 
diately acted u.pon, and a meeting of yoimg men was held 
at the Planter's Hotel, on Canal street, for the purpose of 
organizing the proposed association. Among those partici- 
pating at this meeting, and active members of the associa- 
tion in that memorable year (1837) were the following : 

F. Mathewson, Virgil Boulement, Milton Boulmet, Wm. 
B. Rotta, Jno. C. Page, Jno. F. Dolan, Chas. H. Waldo, E. 
Hiestand, J. P. Breedlove, Simon Green, Ed. L. Nimmo, Jas. 
F. Rusha, .1. D. Kenton, Theo. A. James, Thomas Y. James, 
L. C. Dillard, Alex. Levy, Ahnon Parsons, Thos. Love, 
Alex. Hazelett, P. W. Leslie and Jno. Leslie, Jr. Others 
were at the organization and active participants in the 
association, but owing to the destruction of the books of 
the Association by the biu-ning of Odd Fellow's Hall in lS(j(), 
it is impossible to give their names. 



Nearly if not all of those whose names are enumerated, 
were members of Protection Hose Fire Company, of which 
Mathewson was also a leading member. When the name of 
the society came up for consideration, that of " Howard," 
the gi-eat English Philanthropist, was suggested by Mathew- 
son, who supported it by a few well chosen and pithy 
remarks, which led to its immediate adoption. Farquhar 
Mathew.son was elected President, and Vu'gil Boulment, 
Vice President ; the other officers elected at the organiza- 
tion are not now recollected. 

The operations of the Association were confined to 
searching out the poor and helpless victims of the epi- 
demic, appointing Committees of members to set up with 
and nurse the sick, which duty was most cheerfully 
acquiesced m by each member when his time came, whilst 
the dxity of the Stewards were to .visit each Committee 
during the night with refreshments. 

The first two weeks opei ation of the Association devel- 
oped the fact, that the poor and helpless victims of the 
epidemic were vastly too numerous to be aided solely by 
the limited means of the Association, when it was resolved 
to appeal to the well known liberality of the citizens of 
New Orleans, and in every instance their a^jpeals have been 
responded to in the most liberal manner. 

The Association, during the epidemic of 1853 disbui'sed 
over ^150,000 on some 11,000 sick and destitute. Dui-ing 
the epidemic of 1867, over $78,000 were expended on some 
5,000 sick and deslitute. 

The niunber of members is limited to 30, but there are 
not that number at present. 

The first President of the Association was F. Mathewson. 
At a subsequent date, Mr. D. I. Ricardo was elected Secre 
tary, which office he continued to fill until his death in 
1863. 

The present officers are : E. F. Schmidt, President ; 
W. S. Pike, Vice-President ; John F. Caldwell, Secretary ; 
R. S. Robertson, Treasui'er. 



CITY WATER WORKS. 



An Act of the General Assembly, approved April 1 
1833, incorporated the Commercial Water Works and 
Banking Co. of New Orleans, and among the conditions of 
their charter was the right and duty of supplying the city 
and its fauboiu'gs with water at specific charges, except 
public institutions, which they were to supply with water 
free of charge. To the city was reserved the right to buy 
at the end of thirty-five years such Water Works as the 
company might construct, in accordance with which con- 
dition the city bought the Water Works in 1868 for thir- 
teen hiuidred thousand dollars in city bonds, and the ad- 
ministration of the Water Worlvs now forms a branch of 
the city government. 

The engine buildings are in the First District one and 
one-half miles from Canal street, about two hundred yaids 
from the Mississippi River. Two engines of 700 horse 
power each drive foui- double acting pumps of the united 
capacity of a million gallons per hour. The water, in con- 
sequence of the falling of a wall of one of the reservoirs, 
is pumped du-ectly into the pipes dm-ing the day. 



JEWELL'S CRESCENT CITY ILLUSTRATED. 



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JEWELL'S CRESCENT CITY ILLUSTRATED. 



There are 56 miles of main pipe, formerly of wood or 
cement, but now in process of replacement by iron. The 
pipe from the river to the reservoir is 48 inches in diame- 
ter, that extending from Calliope to Canal street is 30 
inches. The rest are smaller. The hydrants number 
11,000, many of which are now closed. For fires and 
street cleansing there are more than a thousand fire-plugs, 
which being frequently opened during hot weather add 
much to the health and comfort of citizens. 

The water rate is, for one hydrant supplying a family of 
four persons, $12 per annum, and $1 more for each addi- 
tional member. The supply to each hydrant is more than 
twice as much as it is in any other city. General Braxton 
Bragg, in his report for 1859, shows that the daily average 
to each person (allowing ten persons to each hydrant), was 
95 gallons. The water of the Mississippi, when filtered or 
settled, is entirely pure and free from organic matter. Sea- 
men find that it I'emains fresh longer than any other water 
taken on board their vessels. 

When the Water Works Company was chartered all that 
region above Felicity road was swamp or plantations. 
What is now Melpomene street was a bayou, the delight of 
half the boys of the city for hunting and fishing. What 
were then frog ponds and almost impenetrable swamp 
thickets, are now the sites of elegant residences. 

From 1845 to 1868, the Water Works were under the 
control of a Board of Directors, of which Felix Labatut 
was the honored, able and very efficient President. He 
was aided by Paulin Durel, A. Carri6re, George A. Fre- 
ret, Frank Pei'ret and D. Lanata, members of the Board. 



FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH. 



HANCOCK LITERARY ASSOCIATION. 



This large and time-honored church, situated on Lafay- 
ette Street, opposite the fine square that bears the same 
name, is a brick edifice, 75 feet by 90 in length, and 42 feet 
in height. The main tower is 115 in height, the spire with 
pinnacle is 104 feet, and the entire height 219 feet. 

The body of the church contains 1311 sittings, and is 
usually filled to its utmost capacity. 

Attached to the church is a lecture room, 25 feet by 75 
in length, and 18 feet in height, which has 218 sittings ; 
also a school-room with the same number of sittings, and 
two session rooms and a library. The architect of this fine 
edifice was Henry Howard ; the builder, G. Purvis ; and 
the artist, P. Gualdi, Esquires. 

The rostrum or pulpit, slightly elevated (in modern 
style) above the pews, is tastefully designed and elegantly 
furnished. The church, throughout, is richly, though not 
gorgeously, equipped. The orchesti'a, opposite the pulpit, 
accommodates a large choir, whose music, whether in 
hymns, psalms or anthems, always of a higli order, is 
of the grave and noble style adapted to Pi-otestant worship 
in the Presbyterian churches of America. Lofty and com- 
modious galleries, on a level with the orchestra, and to the 
•right and left of the minister, are, especially at the morning 
service, and in the Winter seaso'^, crowded with attentive 
listeners of all classes and colors 



This Association was chartered under the general laws of 
the State, June 1st 1872, to exist for a period of twenty- 
five years from the first Friday in March 1868, the date of 
its organization. 

The objects of the Society are : the cultivation of polite 
literature, oratory and elocution, by discourses from history 
and the Belle-lettres and by recitations from the poets. It 
is an Association identical in its character and aims with the 
Raven Club of Washington city, which, composed of the 
elite of the National Capital, met weekly antecedent to the 
late war at the residence of D. K. Wliitaker, Esq., on 11th 
street, and whose meetings were, by that gentleman, reg- 
ularly reported for the press, he being historiographer and 
presiding officer of that well-known club. 

Mr. Whitaker is President of the Hancock club, and 
J. J. Foley, Esq., Vice-President. Both these gentlemen 
have been accustomed to deliver weeldy lectures on recon- 
dite subjects in the more elevated branches of literature, in 
which much learning is embodied. Distinguished visitors 
frequently take part in the discussions — always welcome 
and always appreciated. Since its commencement the So- 
ciety has slowly but steadily advanced. Recherche in char- 
acter, it is happily free from blatant demagogism in pol- 
itics, and absurd bigotry in religion ; indeed both these 
much-vexed and agitating subjects are excluded from its 
debates. 

The President, drawing on his large and matured re- 
sources, is accustomed to open the meetings, handling at 
will, various epochs of the English literature, and dealing 
with them as familiar things. 

Mr. Foley, Vice-President of the Association, has, dui-ing 
the years of his membership, dating from its organization^ 
delivered discoui'ses on the Lord Chancellors and Chief 
Justices of England, the Chief Justices of the United States 
— on epic poetry — the ancient and modern drama — on for- 
ensic eloquence, and the corrupt practices of the judicial 
tribunals of the past and present. These lectm-es have 
been marked by distinguished ability proving their author 
at once the able advocate and astute reasoner. 

An agreeable feature of the Society consists in recita- 
tions, original and selected, by its lady members, who, 
though entirely ignoring the woman's rights dogma, as 
something unnatural and vmbecoming, are still willing, in a 
quiet and modest way, to aid the cause of letters. 

Mr. Overall, a much admired and highly esteemed poet 
and journalist, is critic of the Association and one of its 
most brilliant orators. 

Weekly meetings take place at the residence of the Pres- 
ident, and, on those occasions, as in the groves of Acad- 
emus, leaving the work-day world behind, intellectuality 
may revel in its higher sphere, and mind and heart be alike 
cultivated. 

It is the wish of its members to foster an especial esprit 
de corps, a love of letters in the Crescent City, which must 
always go hand in hand with refinement and civilization. 

The original and interesting matter presented at differ- 
ent times, before this Association, would fui'nish volumes 
of valuable and useful information. 



JEWELL'S CRESCENT CITY ILLUSTRATED. 



THE MISTICK KREWE OF COMUS. 

UISTORY OF THE KREWE AND THEIK VARIOUS FESTIVALS 
FROM 1S57 TO 1873. 

Maedi Gras has ever been a memorable day in the social 
annals of New Orleans, and since the year 1857, its joys 
and festivities have been inseparably connected with the 
revels of the Mistick Krewe. Where they came from, what 
their history, and who compose the mysterious band, are as 
impenetrable mysteries now as they were fourteen years 
ago. This fact we do know, however, that the Ki'ewe have 
become so much a part of Mardi Gras, that were they to 
drop out of the events of the day, the very life of that 
merry time would seem as dead. 

The near approach of the time when they will " walk " 
again, and the general awakening of public intei'est and 
anticipation — which ever reciu's when Mardi Gras draws 
nigh — prompts us to relate the history of the Mistick 
Krewe and their festivals from then- inception to the 
present time. 

In 1857, for some time before Mardi Gras, there were 
whispers that a fresh and novel entertainment would be 
offered to our people. Nobody at first knew what it would 
be, but by some means it leaked out that an organization 
calling itself the Mistick Krewe of Comus, would appear 
upon the streets on Mardi Gras night in all sorts of fanciful 
masks and costumes ; that they would form in procession, 
march through the principal streets, and then retire to the 
Vai-ieties, (then called the Gaiety) Theatre, where certain 
tableaux of a mythological chaiacter would be exhibited, 
after which a grand ball would be given, to which only a 
certain select company would be invited. The affair 
created great interest and excitement, the greater from the 
profound secrecy and mystery which surrounded it, the 
beautiful cards of invitation which were issued to the ball, 
and the complete ignoi'ance of each invited guest of the 
source from whence the invitation came. 

After the first celebration of 1857, enough was known to 
satisfy the public that the Krewe were composed of pre- 
cisely the right sort of persons to make the affair a com- 
plete success. Their identity was apparently laiown to no 
one, and to this day the impenetrable veil which has cov- 
ered them so long has never been lifted. All sorts of .spec- 
ulations concerning them have been indulged in. Yet no 
one can say that he is positive of knowing a single individ- 
ual connected with the Krewe. Thus far their incognito 
has been sacredly preserved. Without a doubt, however, 
they are all gentlemen of intelligence, wealth and social 
position, as the magnificeut and select character of their 
entertainments fully testify. 

It was decidedly noticeable that the interest in the forth- 
coming celebration shows itself long before the day arrives, 
and there is always an eager desire to procure tickets of 
admission to the tableaux and ball. In the year 1866, a 
gentleman of this city, in his eagerness, advertised for a 
ticket, offering to pay therefor a large sum of money — but 
no one has been known to j)rocure a ticket through his own 
exertions, or to use one not intended for him — the lucky 
individual receivincr his card of admission in a manner that 



leaves him in a most delighful state of uncertainty as to 
how it reached him. 

The cards of admission and invitations to the annual balls 
of the Krewe are magnificent specimens of the engraver's 
art, and by the receivers are highly prized and preserved 
as treasures. 

Having explained as much as we or any one Imows about 
the M. K. C, we come to 

THE FIRST FESTIVAL — 1857. 

Mardi Gras fell this year on the 24th of February, and 
the festival of the Krewe was described " as the great fea- 
ture of the uight." It can readily be conceived that cui-i- 
osity concerning their appearing was at fever heat. They 
made their apj)earance in the streets — di'essed in the most 
fantastic costumes accompanied by torchlights — which with 
the fearful looldng masks they wore — made them as much 
resemble a deputation from the lower regions as the mind 
could well conceive. After marcliing through the principle 
thoroughfares to the intense gratification and astonishment 
of the throng gathered to see them, they repaired to the 
Gaiety Theatre, which was soon filled with invited guests. 

In due time the Ki-ewe appeared upon the stage in the 
tableaux, of which there were four. The first represented 
Tartarus. The characters in this scene were Pluto and 
Prosperine, presiding over the three Fates, Clotho, Lache- 
sis and Atropos ; the three Fairies, Alecto, Tisiphone and 
Margaera ; the three Harpies, Aello, Oeyphete and Celeno ; 
the three Gorgons, Medusa, Sthreno and Euryale, with 
Ixion, Sisyphus, Tantalus, Minotaur, Cerberus, Charon and 
Chimera. 

The second tableaux was the Expulsion. In this were 
represented Satan, Beelzebub, Moloch, Dagon, Belial, Isis, 
Osiris, Mammon, and a host of other internals. 

The third tableaux represented the conference of Satan 
and Beelzebub. 

The foui-th repi'esented Pandemonium. This was de- 
scribed as a most magnificent spectacle, in which Gluttony, 
Drunkenness, Indolence, Avarice, Murder, Vanity, Theft, 
Discord, Licentiousness and Jealousy were personated, all 
being presided over by Satan, and flanked by Sin and 
Death. 

The different tableaux were arranged in accordance with 
descriptions in Milton's Paradise Lost, and the truthful 
manner in which they were represented reflected the high- 
est credit upon the poetic taste and jtidgment of the gentle- 
men composing the Krewe. 

After the tableaux the ball conunenced, being joined in 
by the mysterious hosts and their guests. Upon the sti-oke 
of midnight the Krewe silently disapj)eared, leaving their 
friends to contintie the festivities. Thus commenced and 
ended the first festival of the M. K. C, which, from its 
brilliancy, gave promise of much in store for the futm-e. 

SECOND FESTIVAL — 1858. 

February 16<A. 

As may be imagined, the interest and pleasure excited 
by the first appearance of the Krewe, created a lively ex- 
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ance. From the records, we learn that this festival exceeded 
in brilliancy and sijlendor anything which had until then 
ever been presented in New Orleans. The Krewe, upon 
this occasion, revived the mythology of the olden time in 
all its classic glory, presenting the pictui-es of the different 
deities which have for so many ages afforded material to 
the poet, the painter, and the sculptor. 

The richness of the costumes and perfection of the ap- 
pointments, were subjects alike for wonder and admiration. 
The characters represented in the procession were : Comus, 
Momus, Janus, Spring, Summer, Autumn, Winter, Flora, 
Pomona, Vertunus, Ceres, Pan, Fauns, Bacchus, Silenus, 
Satyr, Diana, The Muses, Vesta, Harpocrates, Hygeria, 
Esculapius, Fortune, Plutus, Destiny, Nemesis, Saturn, 
Cybele, Jupiter, Juno, Aurora, Phcebus, Apollo, Night, 
^olus, Neptune, Amphritrite, Pluto, Proserpine, Hecate, 
The Furies. 

As before, the procession wound its way to the theatre, 
which was crowded to its utmost with the beauty and 
fashion of the city. 

The tableaux presented were, as on previous occasion, 
four in number. 

The first represented Minerva's victory over Neptune, 
before an assemblage of the gods. 

The second portrayed the flight of time, the characters 
represented being Castor, Pollux, the Hours, Time and 
Destiny. 

The third tableaux shewed a Bacchanalian revel, repre- 
sented by Bacchus, Silenus, Faunus, Fauns and Satyrs — 
Comus the Seasons, Flora and Momus. 

Tableaux Fourth was a procession by the Krewe around 
the Theatre, by which the assembly was enabled to look 
closely upon the rich and beautiful costumes which had 
delighted them so much. 

After the procession, the assemblage joined in the merry 
dance, and at midnight the Mistick Krewe " folded their 
tents and silently stole away." 

THIRD FESTIVAL — 1859. 

This year, March 8, was Mardi Gras, and the two previ- 
ous exhibitions having assui'ed the people that the celebra- 
tions by the Mistick Krewe of Comus were firmly fixed as 
objects of the greatest interest, expectation was on tiptoe 
for a repetition of the glorious pageants which even now 
lingered like a sweet memory. 

The procession this year represented the four old Eng- 
lish holidays. May Day, Midsummer Eve, Christmas and 
Twelfth Night. 

Twelfth Night was represented by two trumpeters, 
carrying trumpets of a most peculiar design. Herald and 
Ensign of the Lord of Misrule, followed by an enormous 
chicken cock. Page, bearing the crown ; Lord of Misrule, 
attended by his Jester, and the Abbott of Unreason as his 
chief adviser. Two Ushers and a group representing 
vai'ious games and sports. 

In May Day — were Jack in gi-een, Tom the piper, the 
Tabor man. Scarlet and Muck, May Queen, Robin Hood, 
Friai' Tuck and Stokesley. 

Midsummer Eve — introduced most odd and startling 
characters. St. George, followed by the Dragon, Puck, the 



Bear, Moth, Mustard Seed, Pea Blossom, and the other 
fairies of Midsummer Eve, surrounding Queen Titania. 
with Bottom transformed into a donkey. The Lion and 
Unicorn. The great giants Gog and Magog. 

Christmas presented Harlequin following a grotesque 
group of Christmas caroUers performing upon silent instru- 
ments of most ridiculoiis design ; Bell man, Christmas tree, 
Santa Claus, boar's head, plum pudding, mince pie, wassail 
bowl, barrel of ale, bottle of champagne, bottle of port. 

Arriving at the theatre, the tableaux were presented, 
and embraced the four seasons described, and in a manner 
most charming to behold. 

The ball and disappearance of the mystical crew followed 
as before, and the Sons of Comus lived once more but in 
the memories of those who had gazed upon their glory. 

FOURTH FESTIVAL — 1860. 

By this time the Mistick Krewe of Comus had become a 
fixed institution, and their festival was looked forward to 
as a part of domestic history. It was expected that the 
Krewe having gone on fi'om year to year, increasing in 
grandness of display, would this year present an exhibition 
superior to all their previous efforts, nor was the public 
disappointed. The procession eclipsed everything that 
had been attempted before. A tablet at the front ex- 
pressed the design upon it the inscription of the display, 
bearing " Statues of the great men of our country." 

Following were fifteen cars, each representing a block 
of granite, and containing groups of living statues of fa- 
mous historic persons. 

First Car — Christopher Columbus. 

Second Car — Sebastian Cabot, Vespucci and Carter. 

Third Car — Ponce De Leon, Narvaez and Alvaro, the 
early adventurers of Florida. 

Fourth Car — Ferdinand De Soto, Vanzano Menendez, 
Vasquez and De Gourguez. 

Fifth Car — De Bienville De La Salle, Father Hennepin, 
Landoinere, Jean Ribault, Lacaille and Nicolas Bone. 

Sixth Car — Sir Walter Raleigh, Martin, Frobisher, 
Gerold, Archer, Greenville and Ratcliffe, early settlers in 
Virginia. 

Seventh Car — Captain John Smith and Pocahontas. 

Eighth Car — William Penn in the midst cf a group of 
Indians. 

Ninth Car — Hendi-iek Hudson and Peter Stuyvesant, 
the Dutch discoverer of the Hudson River, and the Dutch 
Governor of New York. 

Tenth Car — Edward Winslow, John Carver, Miles 
Standish, John Alden, William Bradford, Edward FDly, 
Isaac Allerton and Roger Williams, the pilgi-im founders of 
New England. 

Eleventh Car — Heroes of the American Revolution — 
George Washington, Lafayette, Marion, Putnam and Knox. 

Twelfth Car — Gens. Lincoln, Wayne, Gates, Mont- 
gomery, Schuyler, Lee, and Green — Generals of the Amer- 
ican Revolution. 

Thirteenth Car — The great statesmen of the Ameiicau 
Revolution — Benjamin Franklin, John Adams, Robert Liv- 
ingston, Thos. Jefferson, Patrick Henry, Roger Sherman, 
Richaa'd Henry Lee, and John Hancock. 



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FouETEENTH Car — General Andrew Jackson. 

Fifteenth Car — IllvLstration of the compromise of 1833, 
Henry Clay, J. C. Calhoun and Daniel Webster. The 
Statues, while dressed to represent the various characters, 
were white as marble from top to toe. 

As heretofore the Theatre was the scene of the crowning 
glories of the night, the tableaux were beautiful in design 
and faithful in execution. 

" The historic sculpture of America," was the general 
design of the tableaux, represented by ten diiferent groups, 
embracing " Landing of Christopher Columbus at San Sal- 
vador," Ferdinand De Soto discovei-ing the Mississippi, 
Pocahontas saving the life of Capt. Smith, Landing of the 
Pilgrims at Plymouth Rock, William Penn's treaty with 
the Indians, Declaration of American Independence, Monu- 
ment to the Generals of the American Revolution. The 
Compromise of 1833, The Hero of Chalmette — Andi-ew 
Jackson. 

The tableaux concluded, Terpsichore reigned supreme. 
True to their faith, the Mistick Krewe vanished at the 
sound of the midnight bell, and were seen no more. 

FIFTH FESTIVAL^1861. 

The troubled state of the coimtry, and the foreshadowing 
of civil war, led many to believe that the festivities of the 
Mistick Krewe would be held in abeyance ; but, true as the 
needle to the pole, the revellers appeared on Madri Gras 
night, the date this year being February 14. The line of 
procession was on Camp, Julia, St. Charles, Royal, St. 
Louis, Chartres, Canal and Carondelet, to the theatre, the 
crowds on the street making the affaii' a complete 
ovation. The representation was " Scenes from Life," em- 
bracing the four divisions — childhood, youth, manhood and 
old age. 

The costumes were gorgeous, and the characteristics of 
each age faithfully portrayed. Childhood was an infant in 
a cradle, followed by a nurse. Boyhood was surrounded 
by maskers, rej)resenting a kite, top, sweet cake, marbles 
and other boyish things. Youth was attended by the 
representations of vii-tues, aspirations, temptations and 
trials incident to that era. Manhood then came with the 
vices, follies and better qualities of mature life, all repre- 
sented by maskers. Old Age was accompanied by a similar 
band, and following all came Death. As usual, the events 
of the night were the tableaux and ball; of the former 
there were five, as follows : 

The Innocence of Childhood. The virtues and aspii'a- 
tions of Youth. 

The vices and follies of Manhood, 

Conflict between Virtue and Vice in Old Age. 

The triumph of Virtue over Vice, in which was repre- 
sented Childhood, Youth, Manhood and Old Age, leaving 
Vice and Folly behind and ascending toward fame. 

Tho tableaux being concluded, the maskers joined in the 
merry dance which was continued far into the night ; but 
after the witching hour of 12, the Krewe were no more 
seen, having faded away as they had done in evei-y instance 
before. 

AN IXTERI.UDK. 

The war had now burst in all its fui-y, and in the con- 



templation of the bitter train of realities following in its 
wake, the Mistick Ki-ewe dropped from out the local his- 
tory of the city ; their memory was dimmed by the terrible 
strife which ruled the land; for four years the Krewe 
roamed no more ; where they went, or what they did, is 
known to none but themselves. However, with the return 
of peace, they once more appeared before the delighted 
gaze of assembled multitudes, and we chronicle the 

SIXTH FESTIVAL — 1866. 

The announcement that the celebration of the Krewe 
would be revived, created the iitmost enthusiasm, and'kin- 
dled anew the happy recollections of the splendors which 
had always characterized their displays. The day (Feb. 
13) was anxiously looked forward to, and when the night 
arrived the populace en masse thronged the streets to obtain 
a sight of the pageant which was about to resurrect itself 
from the ashes of the past. Theh' appearance was hailed 
with every demonstration of delight, and the people con- 
gratulated themselves uf)on the retui'n of that spectacle 
which had come to be considei-ed as an object of particular 
and peculiar pride. 

The features of the procession were appropriately syjn- 
bolical of the return of peace. At the theati'e, as of old, 
was assembled the wealth and beauty of our city. The 
tableaux were four in number, as follows : 

The Past — represented by the chai'acteristic Strife, De- 
struction, Want, Grief and Terror. 

The Present — Washington approving the blessings of 
peace, surrounded by Industry, Commerce, Science, Agri- 
culture, History, Mechanism and Art. 

The Future — Peace and Plenty. 

The Court of Comus — represents the King of the Court 
entertaining his beasts in an unknoTv n language. 

The ball followed as of yore, and again did the Mistick 
Krewe vanish from the gaze of the world ere the new-born 
day was ushered in. 

SEVENTH FESTIVAL — 1867. 

Mardi Gras came this year on the 5th of March, and as 
the grand firemen's celebration had taken place but the day 
before, the city was more than ever crowded with eager 
expectants for the forthcoming festivities of the Krewe. 
As suddenly and mysteriously as had ever been theh* cus- 
tom, they appeared in procession, coming no one seemed 
to know from where. 

The design of the display was the " Feast of Epi- 
curus," the costumes as gorgeous, their appointments as 
perfect as before, and their numbers somewhat increased. 
First came the Heralds of Appetite — Absynthe, Sherry and 
Bitters — followed by special aids, Oystei's and Johannisber- 
ger ; Lords of the Ladle, with soups, led on the Knights 
of the Shell, such as shrimps, crabs, etc. Pages of the 
household our codfish aristocracy, followed by the Hog. 
The Rulers of the Roast, King Comus leading the Boeuf 
Gras, surrounded by all the vegetables of the table ; next 
came a basket of flowers, followed by the Salt Cellar, Mac- 
caroni Italienne, Canard Grecque, Pate des Oiseaux, 
Grenoueille Francais, Snipe au Diable, Sausage a la 
bow-wow. 

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This is the oldest and undoubtedly 
one of the strongest, if not the first 
in point of capital and resoui'ces, of 
all the Insurance companies of New 
Orleans. It was founded in 1832, 
with Mathew Morgan as President 
and Mr. Relf as Secretary. Mr. 
Morgan having transferred his busi- 
ness to New York, Mr. Dupuy was 
elected in his place, and upon the 
death of the latter, Mr. John Pern 
berton, who had been acting foi 
some years as Secretary, was called 
to the Presidency of the Company 
an office which he held until hi^ 
death in 1868. Mr. Pemberton was 
a kind-hearted, genial and well- 
educated gentleman, and iinder his 
management the Merchants' Mutual 
Insurance Co. acquired great popu- 
larity and influence. Of his suc- 
cessor, Mr. Paul Foiu-chy, we have 
already spoken in no exaggerated 
temis of praise, and the present 
highly flourishing condition of the 
company, as exhibited in its annual 
statement, as well as the large divi- 
dends paid during the past years tn 
its patrons are the best evidence that 
could be produced of the faithful and 
able manner in which the affairs of 
the Company are now conducted. 
AVhilst giving full credit to Mr. 
Fourchy and the Board of Directors 
presided over by him for the success 
of the Mutual Insurance Co., the 

services of its young and popular Secretary, Mr. G. 
W. Nott, should not be overlooked. Mr. Nott is the 
grandson of W. Nott, Esq., one of the merchant princes 
of New Orleans half a century ago, and on his mother's 
side of the late distinguished Judge Jean Francois Canonge, 
whose eminence as a jurist was only equalled by his ac- 
complishments as a wit and a man of the world. Of these 
ancestors Mr. G. W. Nott is no unworthy scion, and his 
friends have every reason to anticipate for him a bright 
career. 




INCORPORATED 1854. 



Capital Stpsk, 

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L. F. Generez, 



David McCoard, 

P. S. WiLTZ, 
M. PUIG, 

J. J. Fernandez, 
Charles LaFitte. 



JEWELL'S CRESCENT CITY ILLUSTRATED. 



followed by a Salad Fork, Lettuce and Castors. The 
Kuiglit of the White Crest, attended by Cold Slaugh, 
Cauliflowers, Artichokes and Asparagus, were followed by 
the Stewards in waiting, flanked by Jelly and Plum Pudding. 

Next in order were seen the Grand Equerry and Lady, 
supported by Ice Cream and Strawberries, Ushers of the 
Court, Maccaroon, Meringue and Champagne. The Fruits 
of Victory now appeared, aided by Apples, Peaches and 
Plums. The Gentlemen of Cultivation were represented 
by Bananas, Pineapples, Oranges, Grapes, Melons and 
Burgundy. The " Triflers of the Council" were Nuts, 
Confections, Omelettes, etc. The " Peacemakers " — Coffee 
and Cigars, Curacoa and Kirschwasser — concluded the 
Feast of Epicurus. 

The affair was of the most magnificent character, and 
excited wonder and admiration, not only because of the 
elegance of the costumes, but for the very correct manner 
in which the many difficult characters were portrayed. 

At the Theatre the crush was as gi'eat as ever, and ex- 
pectation was at its highest for the presentation of the 
Tableau, on this occasion consisting of a single display — 
" The Gourmand's Vision of Two Com-ses and a Dessert." 
This tableaux was most elaborately gotten up, and embraced 
all of the members of the Mistick Krewe, who represented 
at the banquet the various dish'js known to civilization. 
The press of the day pronounced it the most beautiful and 
appropriate of all the Tableaux which the Krewe had ever 
given. 

Again did Terj)sichore rule Queen of the night, and 
again did the Krewe melt into thin air, as they did on so 
many occasions before. Whether they remained there, or 
whether they reappeared in mortal form we cannot say, 
but we do know that they came again upon the occasion 
of the 

EIGHTH FESTIVAL — 1868. 

Februai-y 26th ushered in Mardi Gras, and the return of 
the Krewe to the scenes of their foi-mer triumphs. The 
subject chosen for the display of this year was Moore's 
Lalla Rookh, one requiring a full appreciation of the poet's 
theme, and a particular attention to detail, and which, at 
the hands of its faithful expounders, met with such por- 
trayal, that none could be at a loss to know and feel the 
perpetuation of the beautiful story. 

The pageant was foraied to represent the entrance of 
Lalla Rookh into Delhi — and she could not have been more 
thoroughly welcomed than was the Mistick Krewe by the 
thousands who thronged the streets upon this occasion. 
Leading the procession came a cavalcade of horsemen bear- 
ing aloft the blazing insignia of royalty, and blazing with 
jewels and gaudy colors. 

In their train were the mighty Fadladeen, young Fera- 
morz and the rest of the coiu'tiers appointed to accompany 
" Tulip Cheek " to her bridal. Then came the elephants, 
bearing aloft in the palanquins the princess and her atten- 
dant houris. Interspersed in the procession were foot sol- 
diers and attendants, bearing aloft many colored lanterns 
of strange and fanciful shape, and drooping garlands on 
their lances. 

The line of horsemen was closed by a similar body, such 



as in the olden time galloped through the streets of Stam- 
boul, and bore the banner of Islam to victory. 

As the glorious vision passes from view, with its wealth 
of roses, light, fair women, and brave men, the spell was 
over all, that Comus was j'et monarch of his own phauloiu 
realm, with all its dazzling glory and mystery. 

The selections of Tableaux for this year exhibited tlie 
refined taste of the gentlemen composing the lu-ewe, and 
nothing which they had presented before was riclier or 
rarer. 

We give the list of tableaux as embodied in the unmortal 
poem. 

The Veiled Prophet of Khorassan — His Coui-t; The 
Oath ; The Banquet. 

Paradise and the Peri — Gates of Heaven ; Patriotism ; 
Devotion ; Contrition ; The Gift Most Dear to Heaven. 

The Fire Worshippers — Discovery; Death of Hafed. 

The Light of the Harem — Feast of Roses. 

" At the end of the hall stood two thrones as precious as 
the Cerulean Thi'one Koolbui'ga, on one of which sat Aliris, 
the youthful King of Bucharia, and on the other was in a 
few minutes to be placed the most beautiful princess in the 
world. 

"Immediately upon the entrance of Lalla Rookh into the 
saloon, the monarch descended from his throne to meet her, 
but scarcely had he time to take her hand in his, when she 
screamed with surprise and fainted at his feet. 

" It was Feramorz himself that stood before her. Fera- 
morz was himself the sovereign of Bucharia, who, in this 
disguise had accompanied his young bride from Delhi, and 
having won her love as an humble minstrel, now amply de- 
served to enjoy it as a King." 

The march by the Krewe, the ball and the flitting away 
of the mysterious shadows completed this most successfid 
display of 1868. 

ninth festival. — 1869. 

Mardi Gras came early this year falling on the 9th of Feb- 
ruary. The procession of the Mistick Kjewe upon this oc- 
casion represented the Five Senses, or Sight, Sound, Smell, 
Taste and Touch. 

Each sense was represented by a pallid antitiue statue in 
character. The first personated Phoebus in his car of light 
drawn by four coursers. Then followed Ceres as the God- 
dess of fruit, Orpheus as the Type of Music, Flora as the 
representative of Smell, and Venus as the personator of 
Touch. These emblematic representations gave the per- 
formers an opportimity of representing in a fanta<3tic and 
amusing manner, various species of animals, insects, fruits 
and flowers. 

During the pioce.ssion a serious accident occuiTed, oc- 
casioned by the falling of a gallery on Camp street, precip- 
itating many people into the street, resulting in serious in- 
jury to quite a number. 

The usual route was passed through — the customary call 
upon the Mayor was made — and the pageant wended its 
way to the Opera House where the tableaux and ball were 
to crown the festivities of the night. 

The Tableaux were as follows: 

Phoebus and his types of Light. 



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Orpheus and the types of Sound. 

Flora, the Goddess of Flowers, with her types of SmeU. 

Ceres, daughter of Saturn, and Rhea, bursting like a 
ripe peach fi'om her types of Taste. 

Venus, the child of Jupiter and Dione, with her types of 
Touch. 

The last scene, the Revel of the Passions, embodied a 
melange of aU the characters, with the Genius of Decay in 
sti'ong contrast. 

Thus ended the Ninth Festival of the Mistick Kj-ewe, 
which, like those which had preceeded it, furnished a 
source of delight and sweet remembrance to the multitude, 
and maintained the well-earned reputation of the merry 
King Comus. 



TENTH FESTIVAL 



-1870. 



Shi-ove Tuesday entered the year on the first of March, 
and foimd the eager and excited populace anxious to live 
over again the pleasant di-eams which the revels of the 
Mistick Kerwe had now made a part of existence. 

The subject chosen for the display this year was the His- 
tory OF Louisiana, and was represented most beautifully 
and appropriately in statuary. 

Fii'st came old " Mische-Sepe," the Father of Waters, 
moimted on a ghostly-looking hoi-se, followed by sixteen 
cars, bearing the representatives of the different eras in the 
History of the State. 

Car No. 1 — Louisiana, wearing as a crown a coat of 
arms, and in her hand a shield ; standing near her New Or- 
leans wearing a crown with a crescent. Next to these 
stood the personators of Sugar, Cotton and Rice. 

Car No. 2 — ^Year 1539. — Ferdinand De Soto, siuTounded 
by Juan D. Guzman, Pedro Calderon, Numo Tobar and 
Musco de Alvardo. 

Car No. 3 — Tear 1539. — Seven figm-es on this car : 
Vanconcellos De Silva, Gonzalo De Cordova and the five 
Spanish soldiers who made with De Soto that wondrous 
march from Florida to the Mississippi. 

Car No 4. — The central figiu-e is the Indian Princess 
who made the gallant Fernando welcome to the country of 
Cofaciquis. She is surrounded by representations of the 
different tribes of Indians, upon whom fell the burden of 
the vindication of their race. 

Car No. 5 — Tear 16.73. — Two priests are seen teaching 
to the Indians by whom they are surrounded, the truths of 
the Gospel. 

Car No. 6. — La Salle, on hoi-seback, stands forward a 
representative of another phase of civilization. His faith- 
ftd friends, Tontin and Father Hennipen, are with him. 

Car No. 7- — Tear 1700. — In this are Iberville and 
Joinville, Counts Pontchartrain, De Maurepas, Curate de 
la Vente and Marigny de MandeviUe, honoi'ed names in the 
history of Louisiana. 

Car No. 8. — The central figure is Bienville — the true 
French chevalier. "With him arc the Soeur Denis and Dona 
Marie ; around him is a trio of Governors, who repre- 
sented, with varjdng credit. His Most Christian Majesty in 
Louisiana. Their names are Lamonth CardUac, De 
L'Epinay and Pierier. 



Car No. 9 — ^Tear 1727. — Religion heads the list, with 
the figure of a Jesuit Priest and two nuns. 

In striking contrast is the martial figure of General 
Groudel, a dashing French oificer, flanked by the Marquis 
Vandrievd and Gov. Kerlerec. 

Car No. 10. — There is presented here Gen. O'Reilly and 
Don Juan Ualoa, fii-st Spanish Governor of the Territory. 
At the side of Don Juan is the Mai'chioness D'Abrado, 
a beauty of the period. Next to them is La Frenier. 
Father Dagobert, a noted priest of the day, closes the 
picture. 

Car No. 11 — Tear 1772 to 1797. — The Governors of 
the Territory from 1792 to 1797. Don Luis Ungaso. 
Governor in 1772; Don Bernardo de Galvez, in 1777; 
Miro, in 1784 ; Baron Carondelet, in 1790 ; and General 
Gayoso, in 1797. 

Car No. 12 — 1799 to 1803. — Marquis Casacalvo, who 
ruled the State in 1799, and Don Manuel de Lalado, who 
governed in 1803. Next to them, Robert Livingston, Jas. 
Madison and James Monroe, the distinguished chai'acters 
in the history of our country, who were charged by the 
Government with the purchasing of Louisiana from the 
French. 

Car No. 13, 1803. — This is a sequel to the last design. 
Napoleon has resolved to accept the 815,000,000 from the 
United States, and the group represents Gov. Claiborne 
and Gen. Wilkinson receiving the territory from the 
French Commissioner Laussat. The two remaining 
figures are Etienne Bore, first Mayor of New Orleans, and 
Girod, the second Mayor. 

Car No. 14, 1815. — General Jackson on horseback, sur- 
rounded by his staif. Major Latour, a gallant Frenchman, 
Major Thomas Butler and Generals Coffee and Carroll. 

Car No. 15, 1815. — In this are seen Pierre and John La- 
fitte famous in history as the Pii-ate Brothel's, but who earned 
the names of patriots when they offered themselves with 
six hundred comi-ades to the service of Jackson. With 
them are seen Generals Thomas, Winchester, Labatut and 
Morgan. These men tell the story of the army of deliver- 
ance of Louisiana. 

Car No. 16. — This is the last, and contains General Vil- 
lere, a gallant looking man, representing worthily one of 
the highest and most ancient of Creole families. With him 
are General Adau', of Kentucky, Major Plauch6, Col. Ed- 
ward Livingston and Commodore Patterson. 

The design of this year's display was not only rich but 
it was historically valuable. It recalled to the people the 
deeds and names of those who for them fought with savage 
tribes, and hazai'ded life and comfort in a di'eam of empire, 
to result, in after years, to the benefit of then- descend- 
ants. 

The procession closed, the Theati'e was the future scene 
of the closing revels, where the Tableaux and ball were to 
take place — which we give as follows : 

Tableau First — Louisiana; her Daughter, New Or- 
leans; her Wealth, Cotton, Sugar, Rice; Miche-Sepe, the 
Father of Waters. 

Tableau Second — Death of De Soto at the mouth of 
the Red River, in 1542. 



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Tableau Third — Reception of Father Marquet and 
Joliet by the Indians, in 1678. 

Tableau Fourth — La Salle taking possession of Lou- 
isiana in 1682, " In the name of the Most Puissant, Most 
High, Most Invincible, and Victorious Prince Louis, the 
Great King of France." 

Tableau Fifth — Crowning the Hero. — On a raised 
platfonn the " man of iron will," glorious old .Jackson, was 
seen .standing, wliile the maiden Louisiana held out lier 
hand over his head in the act of crowning him with the 
laurel wreath of victory, mingled with the olive leaves of 
devotion and love. Other figures were grouped around. 

Tableau Sixth — Louisiana — Her Founders and De- 
fenders — The grandest effort of the evening, and pro- 
nounced by all who saw it the most perfect, beautifully con- 
ceived, and handsomely grouped tableau ever beheld. 

Words cannot convey the beauty and expression of the 
gi'oup. Louisiana appeared on a pedestal, with her 
daughter. New Orleans, and her friend Miche-Sej)e on 
either hand, while in front stood the representatives of her 
wealth — Cotton, Sugar and Rice. Lower down were 
grouped the different characters who had appeared in the 
jM'evious tableaux, while on her right and left, a little re- 
tired, mounted on their favorite horses, were those great 
heroes and our nation's idols, Washington and Jackson. 

The tableaux concluded, the ball followed, and thus for 
the tenth time the Mistick Krewe flashed across the t'om- 
mon-placed existence of mortality. 

MECHANIC'S INSTITUTE AND INEW ORLEANS 
MECHANICS' SOCIETY. 



Tifci Mechanics' Institute is among the largest and most 
imposing of the public buildings of New Orleans. It is 
built of brick, painted and stuccoed in imitation of granite. 
It is well lighted on both sides and in front. The lower 
floor is occupied as the Library and Committee room of the 
New Orleans Mechanics' Society ; two large rooms are oc- 
cupied as the State Executive office ; the Secretary of 
State has his office in another, and the Hall, intended as the 
lecture room of the Society, is appropriated to the State 
Senate. The second story, reached by two broard stair- 
canes, is lofty, light and airy. It contains besides, two 
large apartments, the vast assembly room now emjjloyed as 
the Hall of the Louisiana House of Representatives. The 
third story is used now as committee rooms, the windows 
of which command a view of a lai-ge part of the city, being 
higher than the roofs of houses in the vicinity. 

This substantial and stately building was the work of the 
New Oi'leans Mechanics Society, and it oecuijies the site of 
the original institute, which was burned in 1854. The So- 
ciety was instituted in 1806, the officers for the year 1807 
being, H. M. Dobbs, President, Peter Craig, Vice-Pres- 
ident, Nicholas Sinnot, Treasurer , and James Armitage, 
Secretary. The corporators announced in their Constitu- 
«ion, that their objects were : "to relieve the wants, comfort 
tne sufferings and promote the happinsss of their fellow 
ci matures," which they held to be essentially the duty of 
all The Society was incorporated by an act of the legis 



Jature of 1821, H. M. Dobbs, Nicholas Sinnott, Moses 
Duffy, Peter K. Wagner, Hugh Carr, W. Lid dell, John 
Veasey and Martin Gordon being the first incorporators as 
named in the act. 

The term, (20 years,) was extended by an act of 1888 for 
thirty years more. By an act of 1850, the State gave to 
the Society a lot, seventy feet front on Philippa, (now Dry- 
ades) Street, and one hundred and fifty feet deep, on con- 
dition of erecting a suitable Hall thereon. This is the site 
of the present Institute. In 1863 the Fisk Free Library, 
originally presented by Mr. Fisk to the City of New 
Orleans, was transferred to the care, possession and control 
of the Mechanic's Society, to be used as a Free Library ac- 
cording to the bequest of the philanthi'ophic donor, to be 
kept open to the public six hours each day. At the same 
time the Library Building at the eoi'nei' of Custom House 
square and Boui-bon streets, was transferred to the Society 
in order that its rents might be applied to the preservation 
and enlargement of the library. 

This library was nearly destroyed by the fire of 1854, 
but the few thousand volumes which were saved have .since 
gi-own into a respectable collection, enjoyed daily by many 
visitors. 

In 1870 the Register of the Society bore 867 names of 
members, of whom 516 are dead and 71 resigned. Among 
these members have been some of the worthiest of the 
public-spirited men of the city who have contributed to its 
prosj^erity and honor by their intelligence, virtue, learning 
and high character. The charitable and useful works of 
the Society are beyond all estimate, while the scope and 
extent of its usefulness are continually increas- 
ing. 

Among the adjunct institutions of the Society is a Sa- 
vings Bank, authorised by an act of the Legislature of 
1863. The Bank is under the management of a Board of 
twelve trustees. 

The officers of the Society for the year 1872, were : John 
Mclntyre, President ; H. R. Swasey, Treasiu'er ; Luther 
Homes, Secretary ; and S. Jamison, E. M. Rusha, F. Wing 
W. McCulloch, Williamson Smith, John A. Shakespeare, 
Robert Roberts, Peter Ross, J. P. Coulon, James D. Ed- 
wards, E. Claren and Thomas O'Neil, the Executive Com- 
mittee. 



Coliseum Place. — This is a long, irregular triangle, 
having Race street for its base, and Camp and Coliseum 
streets for its sides, its apex being near Melpomene street. 
It is planted with shade trees, and is provided with seats. 
A di'ainage canal extends along the Camp street side and 
flows into the larger Melpomene canal. Many fine build- 
ings surround this Park (usually called a " Square,") among 
which are the homes of Mrs. Stiekney, and of Messrs. 
Peale, Wilson, Hendiy, Seeds, Mo(n-e, Renshaw and Vm- 
cent. The square is overlooked by the new Baptist Church, 
remarkable for its substantial structui'e and tlu-^ graceful 
spire which is one of the first seen by the traveler as he 
approaches the city by the river. The small " Church of 
the New Jerusalem " is on Coliseum sti-eet juat below the 
" square." 



JEWELL'S CRESCENT CITY ILLUSTRATED. 




MAYOR L. A. WILTZ. 



Mk. Louis Alfred Wiltz is a native of New Orleans, 
and, we believe, enjoys the distinction of being the young- 
est man ever elected in this country to the chief magistracy 
of a city of the size and importance of the Southern 
Metropolis. Mr. Wiltz was born in 1843, and is therefore 
under thirty years of age. He received his education in 
the Public Schools of this city at a time when they were 
much better organized and conducted than they have been 
since. When the State of Louisiana seceded from the 
"Union in 1861, Mr. Wiltz, although not yet of age, entered 
the Confederate service and was elected captain of a com- 
pany of infantry, and after the fall of New Orleans, he 
went into the Trans-Mississippi Department, where he 
remained on active duty during the war, performing every 
obligation imposed upon hhn with characteristic intelli- 
gence and conspicuous gallantry. 

In 1868, Mr. Wiltz was elected to the House of Repre- 
sentatives from the ninth ward of New Orleans, and the 
next year he was also elected to the Board of Aldermen, 
of which body he was made the President liy a unanimous 
vote. Mr. Wiltz's course as a legislator and a city admin- 
istrator was marked by strict integrity and great vigilance 
in guarding the interests and vindicating the rights of his 
constituents, and the Democi'atic Parish Convention which 
met hi 1869 acknowledged the value of his services by ten- 
dering to him the unanimo^is nomination for the Mayoralty. 
The municipal election which was to have been held that 
year having been postponed by an act of the Legislature, 
Mr. Wiltz was again unanimously chosen for the same 
position in 1870, and although he did not receive his certi- 
ficate of election, it was generally believed at the time that 
he had obtained a majority of the votes cast, and that he 
was unfairly •' counted out." 

In 187'2, Mr. Wiltz was again nominated for the Mayor- 



alty by the Democratic, Liberal and Reform parties, and 
was elected by a very large majority over Mr. Fish, the 
radical candidate. 

Although he has always taken a lively interest in public 
affairs, Mr- Wiltz is not a politician, in the vulgar sense of 
the word, and in his case it may truly be said that the 
ofiice sought the man, not the man the office. Since the 
war he has been engaged in commercial pursuits, and is a 
member of the well-known and highly respected firm of 
P. S. Wiltz & Co., commission merchants on Carondelet 
street. 

Mr. Wiltz has also devoted much time to the Public 
Schools of his section of the city, and is also an active and 
zealous member of our Volunteer Fire Department. This 
intelligence, knowledge of the wants of the people and 
thorough acquaintance with the affairs of the city, admir- 
ably qualify him for the task of introducing order and 
economy into every branch of the municipal administra- 
tion, and his well known integrity and firmness of charac- 
ter are guaranties that the supervisory powers of the ofiice 
shall be wielded by the new Mayor in such a manner as to 
hold every member of the city government to a faithful 
performance of theu- duty. 

E. B. BENTON, 

The President of the Accommodation Bank, was born in 
Vermont in the year 1832. His early occupation was that 
of a farmer, a pur.suit he continued to fallow in his native 
State imtil 1858, when he removed to Tennessee, and pur- 
chased the site now known as Fort Pillow. Here, through 
indomitable energy and unceasing laljor, he succeeded in 
establishing a trading point, and attracting thither a number 
of settlers to locate with a view of building up a town. 
Wishing to enlai-ge his sphere of business, Mr. Benton 
visited Europe for the purpose of making contracts for the 
delivery of oak staves. Whilst absent the war broke out, 
and all' kinds of business being suspended, he returned to 
New York, and there engaged in the practice of the law in 
Albany. After the occupation of Tennessee by the Federal 
authorities, he returned to Fort Pillow, and there re-estab- 
Hshed the trading post. Enjoying the confidence of the 
military commanders, he was enabled thereby to render 
many and valuable services to the Southern people in the 
vicinity, whom he knew by a previous residence in their 
midst, and whose respect and esteem he had secured by 
uniform kindness and correct deportment. After the cap- 
tvue of Fort Pillow by Gen. Forrest, Mr. Benton, who lost 
all of liis property by the fall of the place, went to St. 
Louis, and there resumed the practice of his professiijn. 
He';"however, did not remain there long, before finding an 
opportunity to make an investment of a large amount of 
capital in the town of Shreveport, La. 

Having secured the confidence aud assistance of a 
wealthy "gentleman in St. Louis, Mr. Benton established 
one of the largest and most successful business houses in 
Shreveport, and conductedit until 1867,whenhecame to New 
Orleans, where he has since resided. By indu.stry, frugality 
and discreet judgment, Mr. Benton has succeeded in accu- 



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mulating an independent position, and his sagacity dis- 
played in the purchase of stocks lias secui-ed for him the 
directorship of several companies, and the Presidency of 
the Accommodation Bank, a position to which he has been 
twice electr;d. His management of this institution has been 
eminently successful, profitable to the stockholders and 
satisfactory to its patrons. This bank is established upon 
a firm basis, and its dividends will compare favorably with 
any similar institution in the country. As Cashier, Presi- 
dent Benton has the valuable assistance and services of 
Mr. Richard "Wood, an experienced accountant and busi- 
ness man, whose devotion to the affairs of the Company 
has contributed not a little to its success. Although a 
Northern man by birth, Mr. Benton has beoome thoroughly 
identifled with the South, and is as devoted to its welfare 
and pi-osperity as the most ultra Southerner. He mai-ried 
the daughter of the late Barton Lee of Mississippi, and 
since his residence in this State has become a large land 
owner. Never having been a politician or a partisan, he 
has avoided making enemies and he now enjoys the satis- 
faction of feeling and luiowing that the community in 
which he lives cherishes no bitter animosities against him. 
On the contrary, those who know him recognize and ap- 
preciate his sterling qualities, whilst his general reputation 
is that of an honest, upright, and enterprising citizen, and 
a generous and benevolent man. Though comparatively 
just embarking in business in this city, a bright and pros- 
perous future is in store for all who possess the industry, 
perseverance and integrity of Mr. E. B. Benton. 



BENJAMIN MORGAN PALMER, D. D. LL. D. 



Rev. Dr. Palmer, one of the most distinguished divines 
of this city and of the age in which he lives, was born Jan- 
uary 2.5th, 1818, in the City of Charleston, S. C, where his 
ancestors were settled prior to the Revolution, and where 
his father before him was born. 

The family was well known in that city, the grandfather 
living to the advanced age of 98 years, and one of the last 
links connecting with the Colonial History of South Caro- 
lina. The uncle, whose full name was transmitted to the 
nephew, was, for a quarter of a century, a leading pastor 
in one of its churches. The father. Rev. Edward Palmer, 
survives, at the age of 84 years, and is still a laboiious 
pastor in the town of Walterboro, S. C, having always 
maintained the character of an accomplished divine and 
most urbane gentleman. It is not too much to say that he 
has transmitted to his still more eminent son, as an invalu- 
able inheritance, much of the grace which marked the 
character of the beloved disciple of the Great Founder of 
the Christian Faith. 

Dr. Palmer graduated, with the highest distinction, at 
the LTniversity of Georgia, August, 1888: entered upon 
the study of Divinity in the Theological Seminary at Col- 
umbia, S. C, and was licensed to preach the gospel by the 
Presbytery of Charleston, April, 1841. 

He was married in October of the same year, to Miss 



Mary A. McConnell, a native of Liberty County, Georgia, 
and was, soon after, ordained and installed pastor of the 
First Presbytei'ian Church in Savannah, Ga. 

His ecclesiastical relation was dissolved a year after, by 
transfer to the pastoral charge of the church in Columbia, 
S. C. In this connection he remained fourteen years, 1842 
-1856, during the last three of which, 1853-1850, he 
filled the chair of Church History and Government in the 
Theological School at Columbia, in connection with his 
pastoral duties. 

A visit to the South West, in the interest of this Divinity 
School, during the Winter of 1855, brought him into ac- 
quaintance with the First Presbyterian Church, New Or- 
leans, then vacant by the removal to California of its 
former pastor. Rev. W. A. Scott, D. D., and resulted, after 
negotiations protracted through a portion of two years, in 
his settlement in this important church, in December, 1856. 
Here his labors have been continued to the present time. 

In the year 1847, in connection with the Rev. Drs. 
Thornwell, Howe, Smythe, and other distinguished men, 
he became one of the -projectors and editors of "JVic 
lioiithern Presbyterian Review," an able religious quartei'ly, 
published at Columbia, S. C, and which has maintained an 
almost uninterrupted existence, being now in its 2.3d 
volume. 

The Honorary Degree of Doctor of Divinity was con- 
ferred on him, in 1852, by Oglethorpe University in the 
State of Georgia, and that of Doctor of Laws, in 1870, by 
Westminster College, in the State of Missouri. 

At the formation of the General Assembly of the South- 
ern Presbyterian Chui'ch, in 1861, he was called to preside 
over that venerable Court at its first sessions in the city of 
Augusta, Ga. 

Few American divines. North, South, East or West, 
have obtained a, reputation for eloquence equal to that of 
Dr. Palmer, none surpass him in theological or secular lore. 
To intellectual powers of a high order, admirably trained 
and disciplined, he unites an amount and variety of learn- 
ing seldom attained. Literary associations and even Uni- 
versities receive, rather than confer, honor, by his accep- 
tance of their appointments to address them on important 
occasions. Envy and jealousy are silenced and overcome 
by the singular modesty and thorough absence of all 
assumption, which are characteristic traits of this distin- 
guished scholar. In the respect tliat is entertained for 
him, in the secret and overt influence he exerts, no divine 
belonging to the gi'cat Pi'esbyterian Church of the United 
States stands in advance of Dr. Palmer. Even those sects, 
denominations and churches in New Orleans, which occupy 
other platforms of religious faith, acknowledge his rare 
genius, his pi'ofound learning, his wondrous eloquence, his 
possession of all those fine qualities of mind and heart, and 
his manifestation of all those christian virtues and sympa- 
thies, which constitute the model diqine. The Crescent 
City is proud of bis reputation, and his own niunerous, in- 
telligent and wealthy congregation regards him with en- 
thusiastic devotion. 



JEWELL'S CRESCENT CITY ILLUSTRATED. 




PAUL FOURCHY. 

Mr. p. Fom-chy, President of the Merchant's ^Mutual 
Insui'ance Co., and of the Mutual National Bank of New 
Orleans, is the youngest of our Bank Presidents, having 
been born in 1832. Mr. Fom-chy is a native of New Or- 
leans, and an excellent home education was the only inheri- 
tance he received from his father, a distinguished French 
officer, who commanded a cavalry regiment imder the first 
Napoleon. Commencing life without any of the adventi- 
tious influences which usually lead to success, Mr. P. 
Foiu'chy owes his present high position to his own industry 
and good conduct, united with a remarkably clear and well 
disciplined intellect. In addition to his fine business abili- 
ties, Mr. Fourchy is a man of liberal and enlarged views, 
always ready to take the initiative in all improvements and 
to lend his assisstance to every enterprise calculated to pro- 
mote the public good ; nor is he to be turned aside from 
what he deems the right course, by outside pressure or 
popular clamor, his rule of conduct being, "I^ais ce que dois 
advienne que jymirra." Mr. P. Fourchy commenced life as 
cleik in the well Itnown banking house of ]SIessrs. Jeannet, 
Quertier & Co., and was subsequently coiuiected in the 
same capacity with that of Mr. Pierre Poutz, of this city. 
In 1857, he received the appointment of general account- 
ant of the Merchants's Mutual Insui-auce Co., was pro- 
moted in 1864 to the position of Secretary, and finally on 
death of the esteemed President of that company, the late 
John Pemberton, he was unanimously selected as his suc- 
cessor. During the few leisure hours allowed to him, by 
his laborious duties, Mr. Fourchy found time to qualify 
himself for admission to the bar, and received his diploma 
in 1854 ; and although the engrossing natm-e of his avoca- 
tions nev(n' permitted him to engage into active practice he 
is generally admitted by competent judges to be very ac- 
curate in all questions relating to the laws of Insurance. 



THOMAS A. ADAMS, ESQ. 



Tins gentleman, a native of Boston, Mass., came to New 
Orleans in the winter of 1842-3, as the representative of 
the Mutual Safety Insui-ance Company of New York, and 
introduced here the Mutual Scrip System of Insui-ance. 

At the time of the arrival of Mr. Adams, five local stock 
companies were doing the entire insurance business of the 
city. 

The Fireman's Insurance Conrpumj soon failed. The 
Western and the Ocean, in a few years, went into liquida- 
tion. The Merchants' and the New Orleans, which com- 
pleted the list, continued with gi-eatly impaired capitals, 
and with limited business, mostly fire ; but they continue 
to this day, with amended charters, converted into mutual 
companies, and with enlai'ged capitals, and gi-eatly in- 
creased business. 

Soon, other agencies followed, and they so multiplied 
that they controlled the p)rincipal business of the city. 

On reviewing the history of insurance in New Orleans, 
Mr. Adams discovered the important fact that ultimate 
success had never attended any local insurance company, or 
any agency. Pursuing his research, another fact was 
developed, viz : that there had never been any bond of 
union with the underwi-iters ; and believing this to be the 
true cause of failure in connection with the leading insur- 
ers, he sought, and, in 1846, obtained, the formation of a 
Board of Underwriters, and to that association he attri- 
butes the large and general success that has attended the 
Ism-ance interest of New Orleans. Aug. Martin, Esq., the 
highly respectable President of the New Orleans Insurance 
Company, was its first President. On his removal to 
France, Leonard Mathews, Esq., was his successor ; and 
on his death in 18.54, Mr. Adams was elected President, 
and has annually been imanimously reelected dui-ing the 
eighteen following years. 

The Crescent Mutual Insurance Company was incor- 
porated in 1849, Mr. Adams as its Vice-President. In 
1850, he was unanimously elected its President, which 
position he still holds. 

Other local companies, chartered under the Mutual 
Insurance system, succeeded each other, all important 
agencies gradually retiring ; and the insui'ances which, for 
a series of years, had been transacted by agencies, were 
now again in the hands of the local companies, who have 
since controlled them to a large extent. 

Before the war, Mr. Adams was, for a number of years, 
President of the New England Society, composed of many 
of our leading citizens, a society purely social and chari- 
table, and, we may add, doing gi-eat good in its day, aiding 
thfi poor, visiting the sick, and relieving the distressed. 

Mr. Adams was an active member and trustee, for many 
years, of the Church of the Messiah, and was one of the 
largest contributors to the building of the new and beau- 
tiful church which bears that name. 

In the establishment of a savings bank for the laboring 
poor, upon a strong and sure basis, Mr. Adams worked 
assiduously — was an original Trustee in the New Orleans 
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Sole Agent for the celebrated Watches 
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Southern Agent for the celebrated Whiting Manufacturing Company, Manufacturer, 
of Sterling Silver Ware only. 

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JEWELL'S CRESCENT CITY ILLUSTRATED. 



the South. He is, now, its first Vice President— also Vice 
President of the Printing Institution of the Blind. 

With most of the various charitable institutions of the 
city, the name of Mr. Adams is associated. 

Quiet and retired in his habits and tastes, he has uni- 
formly declined any proposition of a political or public 
nature— shrinking always from attracting any kind of 
publicity. With a large and well selected library, a devo- 
tee to his profession, he may be said to seek his happiness 
with his books, and in the refined domestic intercourse 
which awaits him, at his elegant mansion of Prytannia 
street. Here he is the earnest and sincere friend, the 
courtly host, and the frank, genial companion, fully in- 
formed on all subjects. 

An ardent and unpretending student, his compeers 
readily esteem him authority in questions of Insm-ance 
Law, and he is never happier than when giving them the 
advantage of his experience. It is not too much to name 
him among the leading financiers of New Orleans, yet one 
who seldom volunteers an opinion in monetary matters, 
until summoned from his privacy, and then pronounces a 
judgment which is accepted as law, and remains imre- 
versed. 

Thirty years have nearly passed since Mr. Adams became 
a citizen of New Orleans. His life has been an open book, 
read of all men. Its pages have been stainless, and its 
records, in which manliness, virtue and integi-ity are pi'e- 
domiuant, have gone forth to eternity. Of him, we may 
say, in sincerity, what was said of the acts of Addison : 
"His logic fed his morality, and the uprightness of his 
mind carried out the justice of his heart !" 

COL. JAMES T. TUCKER, 



Was born in Salem, Massachusetts, March 16 18-39, educa- 
ted in the public schools, and at the age of sixteen was 
taken into the service of the Illinois Central R. R. Co., at 
the principal office in Chicago, then under the adminis- 
tration of President J. M. Douglas. At the opening of the 
war, he entered the federal ai'my as aid-de-camp on the staff 
of Major-General Banks, U. S. A., with the rank of Colonel 
in which capacity he served until the close of the war. He 
was acting Chief of Staff and private secretary to the same 
general officers during the Louisiana campaign. After the 
war he settled in New Oi'leans, as the general agent of the 
Illinois Central Railroad Company. In this capacity he has 
brought to bear an unusual degree of energy and business 
training. The particular commercial problem which he has 
undertaken to solve, is the establishment of a direct trade 
between the Lakes and the Atlantic States, with an exten- 
sion to the Spanish America or Tropical trade. He has 
exercised his influence with the Presidents of the Company 
who have visited New Orleans to inspect personally the 
feasibility of his views. As a result it has been determined 
to connect with the Illinois Central Steamboat and Barge 
navigation at Cairo; and second to extend the Mississipi 
Central, or the Mobile and Ohio R. R. from Columbus, Ken- 
tucky, along the river to a crossing of the Ohio at or near 
Cairo. This will make a through rail from New Orleans to 



Cliicago without break of grade or change of car. These 
connections completed, the Illinois Central can now bill 
freights through between Chicago and New York, Havana, 
Vera Cruz and Rio Janeho, or other points having connec- 
tion with New Orleans. It is undoubtedly the establish- 
ment of a longitudinal commerce which will connect the 
ever-expanding north-west with the American Continent, 
and its i.slands. Mr. Tucker is a representative man who 
brings the enterprise and capital of the northwest to develop 
the commercial future of the South. He has chosen the 
South as a permanent residence, and has united himself in 
marriage with a young lady of one of oui- oldest and most 
respected Creole families. As a yonng man he has a biog- 
raphy to make, but with his character, energy and the con- 
fidence of one of the largest and most influential Railroad 
Corporations in the West he may achieve much honor to 
himself and visefulness to the section whose interests he has 
done so much to harmonize. 



PIERRE SEVERE WILTZ. 



Mr. P. S. Wiltz was born in 1818, and is undeniably one 
of the most influential men of the race to which he belongs, 
particul irly in the Third District of New Orleans, where 
he has resided uninteruptedly for the last forty-five yeai's. 
Mr. P. S. Wiltz was bora in the Parish of St. Charles, his 
father and mother being also Louisianians by birth, but 
tracing their respective aneestrj' to Germany and France. 
Leaving school when he was only thirteen years old, Mr. 
Wiltz went at once into the hardware business, which he 
subsequently left for the Cotton and Sugar Factorage, 
completing his studies by his own unaided exertions, dur- 
ing his leisure moments at home. The rudiments of the 
strong, sturdy, self-reliant character of the man, were thus 
laid down in early life, and the subsequent career of Mr. 
Wiltz has shown that the seed was not sown in barren soil. 
In 1S44, Mr. Wiltz first entered public life, being elected 
to the City Council as a Democrat from a hitherto strong 
Whig district, nor was it possible for his political oppo- 
nents to unseat him at subsequent elections, although they 
carried the district by large majorities for all their other 
candidates. When the city was consolidated in 1854, Mr. 
AViltz was also four times elected to the Common Comicil, 
by an almost unanimoiis vote. He was also sent 
to the House of Representatives, and was one of 
the leading members of the Secession Convention in 
1861. In 18.5.5, Mr. Wiltz was elected Clerk of the Second 
Court, over a very formidable competitor, and was again 
reelected to the same office in 1859. Mr. Wiltz is now en- 
gaged in the Factorage business, and is also a director in two 
of the most floiu-ishing Insurance Companies in New Or- 
leans,the Merchant's Insiu-ance Co., and the New Orleans In- 
surance Co. One of his partnei's in business, is his nejihew, 
Mr. L. A. Wiltz, a rising young Creole, who, after gallantly 
serving his country in the field, received the high compli- 
ment of a nomination for the Mayoralty of New Orleans, in 
1870, and who is generally believed to Ipive received a 
large majority of the legal votes, although his opponent 
was counted in by the returning officers. 



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THE KING OF THE CARNIVAL'S STORY. 



His Royal Highness, the King of the Carnival, sprang 
uito existence like Minerva, from the brain of Jove, full 
armed, on January 31st, 1872. The project was at first a 
novel one, laeldng both men and means to carry it to a 
successful issue, and, as usual in such cases, a little ruse 
was employed to secui'e these two necessary adjuncts for 
its triumph. The first public intimation given of the pro- 
ject appeared in an editorial in the New Orleans Times of 
that date, as follows : 

Accorduig to Mr. Greeley and all other great public 
lights, the raw material should never be wasted, and so 
think a few respectable and public spirited young citizens 
in regard to the annual display of Mardi Gras. Heretofore 
the maskers, who are generally out in goodly numbers 
upon that day, have wandered I'ound in small bands loosely 
all ovei' the city. These they propose to collect together 
on Canal sti-eet, at 3 o'clock in the afternoon, and arrange 
into a procession. Bands of music will be provided, and at 
the specified hour the Chief Marshal and his aids propose 
to be in waiting at the Clay Statue to take charge of all 
arrangements. Orders will be issued in time for more 
du-ect guidance, and it is expected that the officers holding 
their commissions from the shadowy King of the Carnival 
will be obeyed in all resj)ects with cheerfulness and alac- 
rity. 

No doubt the announcement will stimulate the young 
people to greater eiforts, and New Orleans will, this year, 
revel in a day procession almost equal to the gorgeous 
night display of the Mystic Krew of Comus. 

The services of several gentlemen were now privately en- 
listed, and with such good prospects, that the same evening 
appeared the following advertisement : 

Notice. — The King of the C.iniival herewith notifies .ill parties 
<lesirous of t.ikiiig part in the Carnival Celebration to report to 
him immediately through their Slarshals, stating character of 
display, probable number, and whether with or without music. 

In due time, positions will be assigned, and such arrangements 
completed as best calculated to make the contemplated procession 
a complete success. 

For the present, his M.ajesty's address will be " King of the Car- 
nival," New Orleans postottice. REX. 

New Orleans, January 31, 1872. 

Meanwhile, friends had been at work with subscription 
lists, encoui'aged by the liberality of a gentleman thus re- 
ferred to in the Times of the following day : 

Col. Charles T. Howard, having read in yesterday's Times 
of the laudable intention entertained by a band of enter- 
prising young men to organize the wandering maskers of 
Mardi Gras " into an army with music and banners," has 
placed in our hands one hundred dollars to further the 
merry purpose. This sum now awaits the personal order 
of the " King of the Carnival." Mr. Howard's prompt and 
liberal action, while creditable to him as a citizen, gives 
assurance that the enterprise will be accepted and encour- 
aged in a proper spirit by the public, for whose benefit 
and amusement it has been improvised. 

The project was already on the high road to success; sub- 
scriptions flowed in liberally, and on February 1st the 
campaign was opened with the following publication : 

MARDI GRAS. 

As will be seen by the following correspondence, " The 
King of the Carnival " allows no grass to grow beneath his 



royal feet, and by proceeding m a systematic manner has 
already established his usurping authority in the cause of 
fiui and frolic. 

All our people will be delighted at the prospect of thus 
having one of our olden glories revived, and what has here- 
tofore been a day of vagrant mummery turned into one of 
granderu' and magnificent display, in which the fancifrd 
tastes of the people will be allowed full license. 

His Majesty, though a king, is yet the most liberal one 
alive, and welcomes all to his revel, "whether on foot or 
horseback, in carriage or in cart, though they come in niun- 
bers like organized armies, or singly as spies, all are his 
subjects, and can share his glory. Let them beware, how- 
ever, how they disobey his orders, a,s he is said to be a very 
choleric, though a very good old party. And so " Long 
live the King," and may his reign be a meny one. 

New Orleans, Jan. 31, 1S72. 
To the Hon, B. F. Flanders, Mayor : 

His Royal Highness the "King of the Carnival," believing that 
both the peace and prosi)erity of the city could be better secured 
by organizing tlie wandering maskers of Mardi Gras into a proces- 
sion on Canal street, respectfullj- requests your permission to carrj' 
out his views, and tlie co-operation of the police in enforcing liis 
"self-assumed" authority. An early answer is respectfidly re- 
quested. REX. 



To A. S. Badger, Superintendent of Police : 

The permission asked for above is granted, and I would respect- 
fully request that the iJolice assist and protect the procession. 

BENJ. F. FLANDERS, Mayor. 



New Orleans, January 31, 1872. 
To Ills Royal HUjhness the " King of the Carnival " ; 

The request referred to me (as above) by Ids Honor Mayor 
Flanders, is chcerfnllj' acquiesced in. I will do all in my power, 
and that of the force under my command (as far as consistent 
witli public duty), to make your JIajosty's lieeting reigu as power- 
ful and pleasant as it no doubt deserves to be. 

In accordanee therewith, I hcicby order all maskers of Mardi 
Gras to join in tlic procession luider j'our Majesty's direction. 
Respectfully yours, A. .S. B.AGER, 

Sup't of Police. 

The only difficulty remaining was a serious one. An un- 
loiown, yet efficient, authority had to be established over 
the people to which all would yield unquestioned obedience, 
while yet in ignorance of its character or personality. To 
achieve this, it was decided to issue a series of " edicts," the 
first of which aj)peared on February 2d, in the New Or- 
leans Times, as follows : 

THE KIXG OF THE CARNIVAL. 

In the language of Louis Napoleon, if there are men who 
do not comprehend their epoch, the royal personage whose 
title heads this article, is evidently not of them. His steps 
at usurpation betray as much daring as enterprise, and 
from the meek manner in which his encroachments on 
supreme power are met, it is very plain that he will reign 
monarch of all he surveys on Mardi Gras. By the annexed 
<?Orrespondence, it will be observed that the military arm 
of the State jdelds without question to his shadowy author- 
ity, and will do all in its power to add to the glory of his 
evanescent reign : 

EDICT L 

To Whom it may Concci'n; Qrccting: — Our beloved sidiject, 
Charles W. Squire. Colonel Commanding Eouisiana Field Artil- 
lery, is hereby ordered to hold himself in rea<liness with a battery 
ot artillery at the foot of Canal street, on Mardi Gras, Februaiy 
13, 1872. 

Then and there to fire such salutes as may be deemed by his 



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Koj-al Ilin-hness, the "King of the Ciirnival," necessary tQ,-tlie 
pi-opei- maiiiteiiauce of his state and tlignity. 

Given under our hand and seal at Carnival Palace, February 1, 
1872. EKX. 



Headquarters Kegiment Louisiana Volunteer ^ 

Field Aktilleuv, V 

New Orleans, Feb. 1, 1872. ) 

To His Royal Hlrihncss the King of the Carnival : 

Fully rocogulziuir the supri'mc jinwor and glory of your Slajes- 
ty's authority, I rcsiintlnll) siilmiit to its miuulate, :nul will lorth- 
with take the neci-^-.ii \ iii.':[-iii .■- lo -tatiou a liiUtery of Xa|i(ili'ons 
at the foot of Canal strrrl i.u Mardi Uras, Febriuuy 13, and there 
await your Majesty's orders. 

Kissing your royal hand, I remain with much respect vottr obe- 
dient servant, CHAS. W. SQUIKES, 

Colonel Commanding La. Artillery. 

In addition to the above information, it has pleased his 
Mightiness to request from us a public notification to the 
following effect : 

That large or distinct organizations need only communi- 
cate with him officially, previous to Mardi Gras. Small 
parties, or single maskers, in whatever guise they choose 
to appear, will find themselves provided for, and their 
positions assigned in tlie general edict, containing the pro- 
gramme of the procession, which will be issued in good 
time. All are welcome. God save the King. 

This was speedily followed by other edicts, as will be 
seen by the following extract from the Times of Feb. 3 : 

" VIVE LB EOI !" 

As an usm'per tlie " King of the Carnival " is evidently a 
success, since history furnishes but rare examples in whicli 
ambition has met with so few obstacles in the pathway to 
power. 

If His Majesty possesses one shining qualification supe- 
rior to all others, it certainly consists in what vulgar people 
wonl'd denominate " cheek." By a few well directed move- 
ments and judicious orders he has achieved a successful 
corq:) d' etat and will reign on Mardi Gras, with a title none 
dare dispute. 

With the example of obedience thus set in high places, it 
is expected that the people, who are more directly inter- 
ested, will yield an equally prompt and willing submission 
to all His Majesty's orders. 

The following edicts were yesterday promulgated by His 
Royal Highness : 

EDICT IL 
To His Excellency t/w; Oovemor of the State of Loiiisiana: 

In order to avoid any unpleasant complications which might 
arise tluough conflict of authority, you are Iiereby directed to 
close your office on Mardi Gras, and during that period to refrain 
from the exercise, or attempt to exercise, any gubernatorial privi- 
leges or duties whatsoever. 

Further — In order to better preserve the peace and maintain 
the dignity of the realm, j'oii are also directed to disperse that 
riotous body known as the Louisiana State Legislature, and close 
their halls of meeting dining the same period of time. 

A prompt acknowledgment of your Excellency's submission 
will be esteemed a favor. 

Given under our hand and seal, at Carnival Palace, on this, the 
2d day of February, 1872. REX. 

State of Louisiana, Executive Department, } 
New Oia.EANS, Feb. 2, 1872. J 

To His Royal Hirjliness the Kltuj of the Carnival : 

The Governor of the State of Louisiana, entertaining the highest 



regard for your Majesty's person and authority, will feel honored 
in obeying your Royal mandates as far as lies in his power. 

He regrets that his influence v.ith the State Legislature is not 
sulliciciit to control their action to the extent demanded, but will 
rhci'itidly transmit to that body your Majesty's gracious commu- 
niration. 

With a high sense of the honor confeiTed, he remains obedienti v. 
H. C. WARMOTH, 

Governor of Louisiana. 

Subsequent to the occurrence of the above important 
correspondence. His Majesty was pleased to order the pro- 
mulgation of the following : 

EDICT IIL 

To all whom it may Concern, Greeting : 

In view of numerous petitions laid at the foot of the throne— all 
to the following tenor : 

New Orleans, Feb. 1. 1S72. 

Your Majesty would confer a great favor on a large munlicr of 
emiiloyees, if you could succeed in having business susiifiidcd on 
the evening when your dictum will be thr nikin.w Icd-.-l hiw ot 
the city. Wishing you abundance of fun. and lii.].iMu tluough 
your aid to be able to assist in the frolic, I remain your Mibject " 

EMPLOYEE. 

Now, therefore, we, the " King of the Carnival," do hereby order 
and ordain. That all private places of business in this city be 
CLOSED at one O'CLOCK, P. M. ON TUESDAY, February 18, 1872, 
(Old Probabilities permitting.), so that none of our beloved sub- 
jects may be dcliinicd liom participating in the honors to be 
accorded their li< ^i- SoNcrcigiL 

Given under our hand and seal, at Carnival Palace, this, the 2d 
day of February, 1872. REX. 

In addition to the above we learn from one of the King's 
Chamberlains that the procession promises to be not only 
a complete success, but perhaps one of the grandest affairs 
that ever occurred in New Orleans. Masking parties are 
everywhere forming, among which are some composed of 
the wealthiest and most respectable young men in the city. 
All seem to have caught the spirit of the thing, and are 
reporting as directed to headquarters. The system thus 
introduced cannot fail to add greatly to the enjoyment of 
all parties concerned, inchtding the public, and Mardi 
Gras promises to be this year an " up.side down " day of the 
most comical yet orderly character. 

Next day the following notice appeared : 

" AYE, EVERY INCH A KING !" 

Is His Majesty of the Carnival. All day yesterday his 
cabinet was crowded with secretaries answering communi- 
cations and completing preparations for the grand organi- 
lation of Mardi Gras, his Majesty personally superintend- 
ing the duties of his ministers. Two edicts were issued 
during the day, which have not yet been promulgated. It 
was rumored however, around the court yard of the Palace, 
that one was aimed at suppressing an important judicial 
body, and that the other was issued in behalf of the school 
children. 

The cheerful alacrity with which his Majestj^'s edicts 
have been obeyed has not been without a beneficial efi'cct 
upon his health and spu-its. He properly regards this as 
not only flattering to his dignity, but as attesting a mark 
of approval on the part of his beloved subjects promising 
well for his I'eign. 

The Keeper of the Royal Boot-jack reported to his 
Majesty at a late hour last night holding a Council of State 



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upon the subject of the Committee of Fifty-one, which he 
is inclined to view as an insui'i-ectionary body, he being 
overheard to say that they reminded him of an old flint- 
lock musket that would never " report and go off" when it 
was wanted to. 

It was officially announced during the day that five 
bands of music have already been engaged, and that organi- 
zations are daily reportmg in greater numbers. Every- 
thing is now in train for a happy and successful issue. God 
save the King. 

Excitement had now been fired, and all the necessary 
preparations for the display were under way in competent 
hands. His Majesty's coffers were full to plethora, and 
nothing remained but to keep public attention aroused. 
With this design, the following appeared in the Times of 
the 6th : 

//. R. n. THE KING OF THE CARNIVAL. 

ANOTHER EDICT. 

The following edict, issued by His Majesty on Saturday, 
now for the first time officially promulgated : 

EDICT IV. 

To tlie Hon. Chairman of the. Congressional Investigating Commit- 
tee, Greeting : 

His Royal Highness, the " King of the Carnival," having a firm 
belief in the doctrine "Pleasure first and business afterward." 
hereby interdicts any session of your honor.ible body being held 
on Mardi Gras, February 13, 1872, and respectfully invites its 
members to witness the glory of his regal state durnig his reign 
upon that day. , . -r. 

He now awaits a signification of your acquiescence in this Koyal 
mandate. 

Given under our hand and seal, at Carnival Palace, February S, 
1872. KEX. 

New Orleans, Feb. 3, 1872. 
To His Rorjal Highness the King of the Carnival : 

Bowing to your royal will the members of the Congressional 
Investigating Committee will obediently comply witli your com- 
mand. 

AVith many wishes for a successful reign, wc remain your 
Majesty's grateful servants. 

•^ " By order JAS. R. YOUNG, 

Secretary of Congressional Investigating Committee. 



COURT JOURNAL. 

His Majesty was in session nearly all day yesterday with 
his Council, and was pleased to signify his approbation of 
the conduct of the Recorders in deciding to adjourn their 
courts on Mardi Gras, without waiting for a royal edict to 
that effect. He expresse himself so warmly in considera- 
tion of this delicate recognition of authority, that he was 
obliged to be vigorously fanned by the Lord of the Meer- 
schaum in waiting. His Majesty also completed the ap- 
pointments of his royal household, assigning the new 
officials their final duties in providing for his reign. He 
subsequently, during the afternoon, retired tcPthc Divan, 
where he passed the evening in meditation, puffing vigor- 
ously at one of Don Jose Domingo's cigars. 

His Majesty, it was rumored, is somewhat perplexed in 
regard to the precise and proper relations to be established 
lietween himself and his royal cousin, the Grand Dulie 



Alexis, who will be in the city during his I'eign. Upon 
this subject he is profoundly reticent, his silence being 
almost Grant-like in its grandeur, but as His Majesty has 
already proven himself a poor hand at making mistakes, 
no doubt the problem will be solved to the mutual satisfac- 
tion of both distinguished personages. 

In the course of the afternoon, many of his principal 
subjects called and earnestly solicited an audience with the 
King ; among them Col. J. B. Walton, Judge Cooley, D. F. 
Kenner, Judge Howe, Dr. Mercer, John Burnside, Chas. 
Cavaroc, Robert Moore, Mayor Flanders, Pat. Irwin, C. A. 
Weed, T. A. Adams, Jno. G. Gaines, W. S. Pike, E. Salo- 
mon, and many others. All these gentlemen were respect- 
fully but finnly denied an audience. His Majesty having 
fully determined to hold no public levee until Mardi Gias. 
Of course the reception of this determination was I'eceived 
with profound regTet by the applicants, all of whom desired 
to have their comj)liments conveyed to His Royal Highness, 
by the Groom of the Royal Velocipedes, who was in at- 
tendance. 

Toward 10 o'clock p. m., His Majesty, as always his cus- 
tom of an afternoon, commanded the attendance of one of 
his Under Secretaries, who proceeded, as usual, to read 
him to sleep with the proceedings of the City Coimeil. He 
was noticed to yawn repeatedly under the infliction, and at 
11 p. M. fell off into a gentle slumber. 

At 11.30, a peaceful smile stole like an exhalation over 
his childlike and bland features, and the Royal Bootjack 
signified to his brother of the Dressing-gown, that " an 
Angel whispered to the King." This the latter, who is not 
much given to the melting mood, refused to " see," saying 
" Morelike he vas dreamin' he'd drorn a prize in the State 
Lotterree." 

At midnight the gates of the Palace were closed, when 
the sentinel's watchword went echoing from battlement to 
battlement, " Long live the King." 



Next morning the following short biography of His 
Majesty was laid before the public : 

H. R. H 

SOMETHING AKOUT HIM. 

The King of the Carnival is the offspring of Old King 
Cole and the Goddess Terpsichore, whom, in imitation of 
Jove, he wooed and carried off, in the foim of an Irish 
Bull. He is, therefore, gifted with immortality by virtue 
of his Olympian origin on his mother's side. He was born 
somewhere upon the shores of the Mediterranean, about 
the eighth century, and in consequence is now, though hale 
and hearty, somewhat advanced in years. Upon arriving 
at man's estate he speedily conquered the whole of South- 
ern Europe, which he held under dominion for a long 
period of time. About two centuries ago he declared war 
against his cousin, King Gambrinus, who at that time held 
all Northern Europe under sway, and after fighting that 
monarch desperately a long time was finally conquered and 
driven into obscurity. Dming these dark days of misfor- 
tune, he sought refuge in England, whore he assumed the 



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name of Joseph Miller, familiarly known as " Old Joe 
Miller," and devoted himself to politics, in which he subse- 
quently achieved some fame as the author of the Junius 
Letters and the founder of the London Punch. A few 
j-ears since he returned to Rome, where he established a 
race course on the Corso, and made a desperate attempt to 
reclaim his djaiasty. Failing in this, through the machina- 
tions of Count Cavour and Victor Emmanuel, he set sail 
for the United States, where he landed in 1866, and has 
since been living in seclusion at the South, managing the 
political affairs of its people. The prince of mischief- 
makers and jokers, he is credited with having inspired the 
queer governments and social relations existing in this 
benighted section. Only a few days have elapsed since 
his siiccessful attempt at overthrowing the government of 
Louisiana, one of the most remarkable occurrences on 
I'ecord — in a cheeky point of view. 

His Majesty, in personal appearance, is more interesting 
than commanding. Rather below the medium height, an 
ei'cct foi'in surmounted with a well set head, covered with 
a profusion of snow white hair, and a long patriarchal 
beard, his aspect is at once venerable and imposing. His 
brow is wide and expansive, his eyes dai'k and glittering, 
always fixed, as it were, on a dreamy futurity. His mouth 
firm set and stamped with a perpetual smile. His face 
bronzed with the exposure of centuries, and his entire ap- 
pearance and beai'ing are calculated to inspii-e the most 
profound awe and respect. 

His Majesty has never mai'ried, giving as an excuse that 
tliis state should not be entered into until expei'ience has 
sobered the liveliness of youth and all the wild oats have 
been sown. We give this latter piece of information for 
the benefit of the ladies who are already overwhelming His 
IMajesty with billet-doux. 

It is well to note in the latter connection that the national 
air or anthem of the Carnival Dynasty, for many cen- 
turies past, has been, as is at present, " If ever I cease to 
love." 

A bold stroke was now resolved upon, no less than a 
general edict closing the District Courts on Mardi Gras. 
In every instance the order was acquiesced in, eliciting in 
some instances letters in reply. We quote from the Times 
of the sixth instant : 



" REX." 

THE KIXG OF THE CARNIVAL ISSUES HIS EDICTS TO THE 
DISTRICT .JUDGES. 

This (Monday-) morning, the Judges of our several Dis- 
trict t'ouvts \v(>re served with a royal edict emanating from 
His IIii;hnc.ss the King of the Carnival, by which it will be 
seen that " Rex," with an assumption of sovereignty as 
sweeping as that of the most elevated monarch, has but to 
command his faithful subjects, even to the dignified Judi- 
ciary, fall down and obey. Annexed is a copy of the edict, 
a, facsimile of which was received by each Judge : 

EDICT V. 

To our Beloved Brothui; Judrie -; 

Gieetins— His Royal Hishiiess the King of the Carnival, by vir- 
tue o)' authority in him vested, does hereby ordain and decree: 



1. That the District Court stand adjourned on or before 

the hour of 12 M., on Tuesday, February 13, 1872. 

2. That the Honorable Judge thereof immediately notify the 
otHcers thereof, and the bar practitioners of this royal mandate. 

All for the glory and state of their sovereign liege, whom God 
preserves. 

Given under our hand and seal at Carnival Palace, this the fifth 
day of February, 1872. REX. 

In response thereunto the judges have signified their 
cheerful willingness to obey the royal commands, and have 
addressed His Royal Highness, by hand, as follows : 

FROM JUDGE ABELL. 

FiKST District C'oukt. Parish of Orleans. 

To His Majesty the Kiny of the Carnival : 

Your royal authority Is fully recognized, and will be cheerfully 
obeyed. Respectfully, 

EDMUND ABELL, Judge. 

FROM JUDGE COOLEY 

To His Royal Highness, the " King of the Carnival ;" 

Your Majesty — I have received your communication, enclosing 
your Majesty's edicts, to the effect that the Sixth District Court be 
closed on Tuesd;iy, the l.ith instant, from the hour of 12 M., and 
also that t, as Jud^o of that court, notify the ofiicers thereof, and 
the members of the Bar, of your royal mandate. 

I beg to assure your Majesty that I am anxious to comply with 
your desires ; that instead of adjourning my courts as vou'order, 
at 12 M., on the 18th, I shall have it'heimetically closed at 3 
o'clock P. M., the day preceding, and shall so advise the officers 
and members of the Bar. 

Tendering to yotn- M.ajesty my best wishes for a prosperous and 
jovial reign,' 1 remain vour Royal Highness' most obedient servant, 
W. H. COOLEY, 

Judge Sixth District Court. 

FROM JUDGE DUVIGNEAUD. 

To His Majesty thfi King of the Carnival : 

Sire — 1 cheerfully acknowledge the receipt of your royal man- 
date and Ijcg leave to inform 'your amiable M.ajesty that I will 
faithtully, as a loyal sulijcct, eomjjly with j'oiu- request. Praying 
. Almighty Goil that you may live thousands of yeai-s in our beloved 
city, I have the honor to be, of your Majesty, tlie most humble 
and obedient servant, " LS. D'UVIGNEAUD, 

Judge of the Second District Court, by the grace of your Majesty 
and the true people of this city. 

FROM JUDGE LEAUMONT. 

To His Royal Highness, King of the Carnival : 

Sire — A .signifieant nod of the judicial cranium has just brought 
me near — nearer to the somewhat antique bench of his Honor, 
Don Ca?sar Tenumont. boMin? forth ;i« Major Domo, sole Judge 
oi the Filth l>i>tiitt Comt loi' flu' |.:ni-li of Orleans. 

That finiriioii.ii \ now :itl, ,i i..ii:ii.l) liandsme your peremptory 
order and decice, (liix-cling the closing of his infirmary on Tues- 
day, Februai-y 13. 1S72. and begs me to assure you that — 

He deems it not only a duty, but a pleasure to strictly comply 
with your Royal behests, feeling as he does tli.at " the Court is in 
full accord with Mercadel," and that this case "presents no difH- 
eulty.'" 

I am I'urther enjoined by Don Caesar to renew the assurance of 
his eternal loyalty. 

Thrice saluting, oh ! King, 1 am thine. 

LOUIS POWER, 
Clerk Fifth District Court, parish of Orleans. 



FROM JUDGE DIBBLE. 

Palace of Justice, ) 
Department of Prerogative Writs. J 

To His Ror/al Highness, Kituj of the Carnival: 

I am directed by his Honor the Judge of this onr Court, to 
inform your Highness that in obedience "to your royal command, 
our court will be adjourned on the occasion of the entrance of 



your Majesty into ihis city, and tliat all of your Majesty's com- 
mands thereunto will be strictly obeyed. 

I am furtlier directed by his Honor the Judge, to make his 
pledu:es ot'l'ealtv to your Majesty. 

I have the honor to be your JIaiestv's most obedient servant, 
O." M." TENNISON, 

Register of Decrees. 

In addition to above, .Judges Theard and Collens have 
given the bearer of Hi^ Majesty's edicts personal assiu-ance 
of their compliance. 



Another batch of edicts appeared the following morning, 
and it was now very plain that His Majesty's authority was 
established beyond all cavil or dispute. We quote from 
the daily papers of the seventh : 

IMPORTANT EDICTS. 

FROM H. R. H. THE KING OF THE CARNIVAL. 

Now, by St. Paul, the work goes bravely on, and all the 
realm is alive with preparation. Never before was a con- 
queror more thoroughly successful. He has but to speak, 
and lo ! all hasten to obey. Below we publish the four last 
edicts of the King of the Carnival, which give holiday to a 
vast niimber of public cmi^loyees, and all the public school 
children : 

EDICT VI. 

To J. B. Carter, Esq., Superintendent PxibUc Schools, Parish of 
Orleans : 

Gieetins;— Ws Eoyal Highness the King of the Carnival, being 
desirous that the children of the realm should be aftbrded an op- 
portunity of participating in the honors to their liege Sovereign 
on Mariii Gras, February 13, 1872, hereby ordains and decrees, 
that all the schools under your jurisdiction be closed upon th.at 
day, and that you immediately take the necessary steps to secure 
the enforcement of this royal mandate. 

A prompt acknowledgment of your acquiescence in this order 
will be esteemed a favor. 

Given under our hand and seal, at Carnival Palace, this, the 
third day of February, 1S72. HEX. 



Office ok Division SurF.RiNTENDENx Puiii.ic Schools, 1 

Sixth Division. 20 City Hall, \ 

Nkw Oki.kans, February G, 1872. ) 

To Ills Royal Hichness, the Kimj of the Carnival : 

The kingly decree of your Majesty, as to the public schools of 
this division, has been received, and in due submission to the 
illustrious mamlate the schools will be closed on the thirteenth 
instant— JIardi Gras. 

I crave i)ermission to add that your Majesty has no more faithful 
subjects than the "children of "the realm"" in the schools, albeit 
they themselves are, to a degree, sovei-eigns and rulers with 
undoubted, if not coustitutionai sway, in the home dominion. 

\Vealth, prosperity and gre:it wit. and wisdom to vour Majesty. 
.1. 15. CARTER, Superintendent. 

W.M. ROLLiNSON, Secretary Board Diretttors. 



EDICT vir. 

To tlic Hon. C. IF. Loiocll, Posmnstcr, New Orleans: 

Greeting — His Royal Highness, King of tlie Carnival, bv virtue 
of authority in him \ested. and in consideration of communica- 
tions recciv(Hl to the following tenor : 

To His lioiial lliiihnc^ft Ihc Kiiij of the Carnival: 

AVisliing to take an active part in the festivities on the thirteonfh 
instant, I trust Your Majesty will request the Postmaster lo ease 
his employees from slinging literature on that day. I am very 
respectfully, etc., yours, EMPLOYEE. 



It is hereby ordained and decreed that you conform as closely 
to the above request as consistent with your public duties. This 
for the honor and glory of the King, who awaits a signilication of 
your obedience. 

Given under our handand seal, at Carnival Palace, this, the fifth 
day of February, 1872. REX. 



-FKJK. 1 

Levee streets, > 
ruary G, 1872. ) 



Post Offkjk. 
Corner Canal and Old Li 
Kew Orleans, Febri 

His Royal Highness, the " King of the Carnival ;" 

Sire — Your decree of the fifth instant has been duly commmii- 
cated to me, and 1 have the honor to inform you, that in obedience 
to your command, this oftice will be closed on Tuesday, the liilii 
instant, at 12 o'clock M. 

Your Majesty's most loval subject, 

C. SV. I OWELL. Postmaster, 

New Orleans, Lii. 



EDICT VIII. 
To James F. Casey, Esq., Collector of the Port of New Orleams : 

Greeting — His Roj'al Higli'iess, King of the Carnival, having 
been informed that a large number of his well beloved subjects 
are under your authority and control, hereby ordains and de- 
cide es — 

First — That they be released from duty at noon, on Mardi 
Gras, under penalty of our Royal displeasure. 

Second — That the revenue cutter '-AVildei'iiess" remain in port 
during the entire day. 

His Majesty now awaits notitication of your compliance with 
this Royal mandate. 

Given under our hand and seal at Carniv.al Palace, the fifth day 
of F'ebrnary, 1872. REX. 



Custom House, New Orleans, ) 
Collector's Oflice. February G, 1872. ] 

To His Majesty, tlie " King of the Carnival ;" 

I am instructed by Collector Casey to acknowledge the receipt 
of your royal command, directing the suspension of tlie collection 
of customs and the detention of the United States revenue steamer 
"Wilderness" in port during the Slardi Gras festivities, ;uid to 
assure you that it will be his pleasiue for to faithfully execute the 
decerees of your Majestv. Your loval subject. 

"E. p. CU.VMPLIN, Deputy Collector. 



EDICT IX 
To Charles T. Howard, President Louisiana State Lottery: 

Greeting — It having come to the knowledge of his Royal High- 
ness, tlie king of the Carnival, that some three liinnlred of "his 
loyal subjectsaro temporarilv under your control, tlicrelore. 

Know ye, that this mandate hereby interdicts the transaction ot 
any business whatever, connected with tlie Louisiana State Lot- 
tery, on the day, (February 13, 1872) consecrated to His Majesty's 
reign. 

Given under our hand and seal at Carnival Palace, this, the 
sixth day of February, 1872. REX. 



New Orleans, Feb. G. 1872. 

To His Boyal Highness, King of the Cam ival : 

Sire — Bowing in mute allegiance to your royal authority. 1 
hereby notify the public and all employees connected with the 
lyouisiana State Lottery, that the regular day drawing of the same 
will be omitted on February 13. 1872. (Mardi Gras), and at the 
same time entreat them to do everything in their power to contri- 
bute to your Majesty's state and gloi-y on that occasion. With the 
best wishes for the health, jiower and inosperit}' of your Royal 
Highness, I remain jour huml)le servant, 

CHARLES T. HOWARD, 

President L. S. L. 

His Majesty desires us to state that in consequence of 
his secretaries and attendants being overwhelmed with 
preparations for Mardi Gras, he will issue no more special 
edicts. 



His Uoyal Highness, the ^ing of tlic Carniviil. will coramniKl in 
person, iissisteil liy the Gniiul Mafslial ol tlie Em])ire, and the 
Lonls of tlie Hoi-se, Caniag-ps Vans, Yeomanry and tlie Unat- 
taclied — all ot whom, with Iheh- Aids, will appear at Clay Statue 
at 2 o'clock p. jr. 

Upon arrival, the Lords herein named will immediately take 
posiiion at tlie points assigned for the rights of their resjicctive 
Divisions, in the manner laid dowji in this our Rojal mandate, 
taking care to place and hold in line their several bodies, subject 
to the orders ol the Chief Marshal of the Empire. 

HOW IT WILL FORM. 

The pageant will be divided in Five Grand Dvisions, which 
will form as follows : 

THE FIRST DIVISION— VfiW comprise all foot maskers, (in 
ranks of lour), and w-ill tbrm on the South side of Canal street, 
their right resting on St. Charles street, extending toward the 
swamp. 

THE SECOND DIVISION— Comprising all maskers in open or 
jirivate carriages, will lorm on St. Charles street, the right resting 
on Canal street. 

THE THIRD DIVISION— Comprising: all maskers in vans, 
floats, milk-carts and other public vehicles, will form on Camp 
street, their right resting upon Canal street. 

THE FOURTH DIF/S70iV— Comprising all masked horsemen 
(in seriiiins of four), will form on the south side of Canal street, 
their right resting upon Camp street, and rear extending toward 
tlie river. 

THE FIFTH DIVISION— Comprising aW stragglers, late comers 
and subjects not elsewhere proviiled for, will form on the North 
side of Canal street, their right resting upon Chartres street, and 
rear extending toward the river. 

All the above are required to be in line b}^ 2 o'clock P. M. 

HOW IT WILL MOVE. 

At jMccisely three o'clock P. M. a Royal Salute of thirteen guns 
will be lircd from the foot of Canal street, by Col. C. W. Squires, 
Comraaiiiler-in-Chief of his Majesty's forces, when the King and 
Court will immediately move from the Clay Statue, taking up the 
line of march, followed by the First Division, down the north side 
of Canal street to the intersection of Camp and Chartres streets, 
up the south side of Canal street to Eoyal, and down Royal street. 

When the left of the First Division passes St. Charles street, the 
Second Division will move into line ; when its rear passes Camp 
street, the Third Division will move into line; the Fourth Division 
loUowinir next in order, and the Fifth Division last. 

Each Division will be provided with a Band of Music, and its 
and its Lord Marshal attended by a Standard Bearer. 



OUDER OF PROCESSION. 

Squadron of Mounted Police. 

Grand Marshal of the Empire. 

II R. IL, THE KIXG OF THE CARXIVAL, with aUcndant?. 

Music. 

Lord of the Yeomanry. 

Bceuf Gras. 

FIRST DIVISION— nusic ; Lord of the Carriages. 
SECOND DIVISION— -Slusic; Lord of the Vans. 
THIRD DIVISION— Music; Lord of the Horse. 
FOURTH DIVISION— Mnsic; Lord of the Unattached. 
FIFTH DIVISION— Flatoon of Police. 

THE ROUTE OF MARCH. 

Down Royal street to Esplanade street; down Esplanade street 
to Rampait street ; up Ramp.art street, north side, to Canal street ■ 
up Canal slrcet. south side, to St. Charles street; up St. Charles 
street to St. Josejih stieet. to Camp street: down C:imp street to 
Canal, to Clay Statue, where His Roval Highness will aracioii'^lv 
review his subjects, and dismiss the pageant to their own eninv- 
ment— a Band of Music beiiurnlaood incarh square between Ram- 
part and Camp, to better secure this end. 



1. All orgatiizationsand subjects intending to participate mu^t 
report to the Lords Marshal of Division, at 2 o'clock P. M. 

2. All places ol business, i.ublic and private, are hereby ordered 
to be closed at 12 o'clock M. 

3. Owners and drivers of public and private vehicles, are required 
to keep out of tlie highways in which the Divisions of the Roval 
pageant will lorm and through which it will jiass. 

4. Owners and masters of vessels and steamboats in port, the 
proprietors of public buildings, the Consuls of all foreioii nations 
at peace with His Majesty, are directed to displav their colois 
durniif the entire day. 

5. The City Authorities are heiebv ordered, under penalty ot 
Royal displeasure, to remove all obstructions from the hi.>-liwavs 
on which the pageant is to form or pass. " 

6. All malicious mischief upon the part of his ioyal subject* 
such as throwing Hour, is interdicted and forbidden under the 
severest penalty. 

7. The Lords Marshal will be distinguished as follows: Grand 
Marshal of the Empire, jiurple and gold rosette and baton ; Divis- 
ion Lords Marshal, red and gold ditto; Aids, to correspond. 

At Siin-ct aiinilHi- j;,,yal Salute will be fired by the Comman- 
der-in-( luti .,i ii,. .M;,j,.-,iy's forces, when all his subjects will 
immediai.-ly ili-ip.iM-. Ill order to give place, and do .appropriate 
honor to, our Cousin CUMUH, who visits His Majesty after that 
time. 

And now, enjoining .strict obedience upon the part of his beloved 
subjecte. His Royal Highness trusts his honor and "lory to then- 
loyal hands. 

Given under our hand and seal, at Carnival Palace, this, the 9th 
day of February, in the year of our Lord, .1872. REX. 

Preparation.? had now advanced to such a point, that 
nearly everything was in readiness; and, on the 12th, the 
following preclamation was issued by the Lord Grand ilar- 
shal : 

PROCLAMATIOX 

Hy the Grand Marshal of the Empire. 

Carnival Palace, February the Twelith, ) 
Anno Domini, 1872. ) 

I. In obedience to H. R. Highness' Edict No. X. and to carry 
out its provisions and commands promptly and harmoniously, the 
Grand Marshal of the Empire, call iipoii all lo.yal and obedient 
subjects, to form at their resiiective places of reiid'ezvous, precisely 
at one o'clock, on Tuesda.v, (Mardi Gias.) 1872. in order that they 
may report to the Lord Division JIarshal, to whose division the 
character of the organization belongs. 

The prompt carrying out of this command alone will prevent 
contusion and unnecessary delay. As the Royal State Paoeant 
wili move pinictually at 3 o'clock, all organizations .and subjects 
will have to be in line at 2 P. M. 

II. The Lords of Yeomanry, of Carriages, of Vans, of the Horse 
and of the Unattached, together with their Aids, are commanded 
to report in jiersoii to the Lord Grand Marshal, at his department 
ol' State, at 12 M. 

III. Col. A. S. BADGER, commanding His Majestv's House- 
hold Guaid, is commanded to report to the Grand Mar.siial of the 
Empire at the same hour and place. 

BY THE LORD GRAND MARSHAL. 
Approved, REX. 



On the same day the following notices appeared in the 
Times : 

THE KING OF THE CARNIVAL. 

COURT JOURNAL. 

The calm which invariably precedes the stonn, prevailed 
at the palace yesterday, and but little w-ork was done. 
The guards lounged around the galleries and ante-chambers 
in a listless manner, occasionally gathering into knots list- 
ening to the jovial yarns of Col. .Tack Wharton, Chic f 
Equerry in waiting to His Majesty, or exciting stories of 
the chase as related by BUly Connor, Lord Groom of the 



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Royal Stables. Dming the entire morning His Majesty 
remained in seclusion, only granting an audience to a 
deputation of loyal ladies, who desired some information 
concerning the Royal colors, with a view to using them in 
the decorations of Tuesday. His Majesty received them 
graciously, and sumuioned Garter King-at-Arms, to his 
XJresence. The latter explained that the Royal colors were 
Green, Gold and Purple ; regretting that the subjugation 
of the State had been too recent to prepare a Royal Stan- 
dard, but that upon all His Majesty's future fete days it 
would invariably be displayed. An horn- was subsequently 
spent in completing additional ariangements for the recep- 
tion of the Grand Duke ; His Majesty, who of course un- 
derstands all languages, inditing the following autograph 
letter, to be handed to his Royal cousin upon arrival. We 
give it in the vernacular ; 

HiSROYALOVITCnHlGHNESSOFF THE KiNGOF THE CARNIVAL, 

Officia Uywelo ome?t one worle ansh isroy alcoiis inth emostp uiis 
ant Duke Alexis Alex akdrovitcii Eomaxoef aiithvi Uh o Idas- 
ne ciala udie ncef orh Isreoe pti on atsu use ton Mardi Gras. 
' KEX. 

In the evening a gi-and State banquet was given. Among 
the guests attending which were to be found Gen. H. S. 
McComb, Gen. Beaiu-egard, Col. Sam Boyd, Norbert Tre- 
pagnier, P. 0. Hebert, Samuel Smith, J. W. Burbridge, I. 
N. Marks, C. A. Whitney, and C. H. Slocomb, Esquires. 
The approaching festivities were here discussed at length 
with the viands and wines until 9 o'clock, when His Maj- 
esty, attended by his Lords in waiting and Gentlemen of 
the Bed Chamber, retired, leaving the guests to their own 
enjojTuent. His Majesty was subsequently read to sleep 
l)y one of the Under Secretaries, but with some difficidty. 
The proceedings of the City Council usually pi'oductive of 
somnolency being foiind upon this occasion ineffectual, 
through their unusual brevity of late ; resort was then had 
to the minutes of the Academy of ^' atural Sciences, under 
the soothing influence of which nature shortly !5uccunibed. 

Many additional applications for position were filed 
during the day at the office of the Grand Marshal of the 
Empire, and another heavy batch of correspondence was 
being opened up to a late horn- of uiglit, all testifj-ing 
gi-eater promise of gorgeous magnificence of the Royal 
State Pageant. God save the King 



More Honors to II. 11. H. 

New Orleans, Feb. 10. lS7i. 
To Bis Royal HUjhncss, the KIikj of the Carnival : 

Sire — Hearing that some thri'e linndrecl employees of tlie Xew 
Orleans, Jackson & Great Xorthei-n Railroad have addrf-ssed a 
petition to your throne, prayinir a special edict releasing- them 
Irom duty upon the occasion of your reign, February 13, 1872, I 
hasten toforestall that necessity. 

Proud of being ranked among your Alajesty's most loyal sub- 
jects, and fully ai)preciating the wisdom and jirolouud judgment 
Vliii-h i-haraeterizes your rule, I herewith announce the intention 
of the New Orleans, .Jackson and Great Northern Railroad to 
release all emidoyees from duty upon your fete day, except those 
actual ly nci-essary to bring the throngs of subjects daily arriving 
to do honor to your Royal Highness. 

1 hope that all said employees may join in the pageant, and 
thereby publicly testily the high and loving estimation in which 
you are held bv vour honored and submissive subject. 

H. S. McCOMB, 
I'rcsident New Orleans, Jackson I'c Great Xortliern Railroad. 

On the 13th dawned the memorable day of His Majesty's 
first triumph, on the morning of which he issued his last 
edict, through his official journal, as follows: 



TMi: KING BIDES FORTH TO-DA Y. 

Yesterday at Carnival Palace. — Another Edict. — 

Pkepaeations for the Display Being 

Actively Pushed Forward. 

' 'VIVE LE ROI:" 

His Majesty remained in his private apartments through- 
out the entire day jesterday, absorbed in meditation and 
the inevitable Gonzales cigar. Having been apprised 
the evening previous of the arrival of his royal cousin, the 
Grand Duke Alexis, at 10 A. M., he ordered the State car- 
riage, with outriders and chasseurs, and dispatched it with 
the Lord Chambej'lain, Chief Equerry in waiting, and his 
Honor the Lord Mayor of the Corijoration, to conduct HLs 
Highness to the apartments arranged for him in the north 
wing of the Imijerial Palace of St. Charles. 

To-day having been set aside for the official reception of 
the Grand Duke, of course great quiet and seclusion jore- 
vailed ai'ound His Majesty's apai'tments. The offices of 
the Grand Mar.shal, the Grand Almoner, and the Secreta- 
ries were, however, very busy all day making pi'eparation 
for to-day's celebration, and from what we coidd glean, 
everything promised a happy consummation. 

The following letter from a prominent firm in the rail- 
road and steamship interests was handed to His Majesty s 
Seci'etary while just upon the point of issuing a special 
edict in the premises : 

New Oeleans, Feb. 12, 1873. 
To Hi.i Roj/nl Higlmesit, tlie King of the Carnkal: 

Sire : In obedience to your Royal mandate, contained in Edict X, 
we beg leave to announce our intention of- releasing all employees 
from duty, on February 13th, 1872, who may wish to participate in 
the honors to be accorded your Royal Highness, and who can be con- 
sistently spared from the exigencies of business. 

With highest esteem, we remain, yom' obedient servants, 

C. A. WHITNEY ^t CO. 

As night wore on, the gates of the Palace were closed, 
the portcullis lowered and the draw-bridge raised. All 
strangers and newspaper reporters were exiled beyond the 
moat, but long into the silent watches of the night, the 
flickering lights waving to and fi'O, and clink of hammers 
closing rivets up, gave evidence that the work of prepara- 
tion was being pushed on with unabated ardor. 

Diu'ing the course of the day, the following edict was or- 
dered promulgated by His Royal Highness the Kirg : 

EDICT No. XI. 
To all ^Yhom it may Concern : 

His Royal Highness, the King of the Carnival, being deeply ini- 
jiressednvilh the enthusiastic loyalty manifested by his l)el<ived sub- 
jects of all degrees and conditions, upon this, his most blessed /t^s 
day, has resolved — 

That a proper consideration for the glory of his regal state and sov- 
ereign care for his loyal subjects, demmids the abrogation of all laws, 
and the removal of all imiieciinient of whatsoever kind or nature, that 
niav injpair or interfere with public enjoyment. 

-' In pursuance of this deterniiiiatiou, he, therefore, solemnlj- enacts 
the following decrees to rule the law of the land during the entire 
reign of his illustrious and glorious Majesty : 

F^wi— Whereas, It having come to our Royal knowledge that one 
Stockdale. Collector of Internal Revenue, intends taking advantage 
of His .Majesty's preoeeiiiiation in affairs of State connected with the 
Royal Pakeaiit. to colU'ct all the taxes of the Realm, his office is 
hereby abolished. 

Sir'iind— The following laws enacted by a previous government 
havins been found to weigh greviou.sly upon his Majesty's subjects— 
The ilegistraticni Law, Constabulary Law, Election Law, Printing 
Law, Taxes and Judge II. C. Dibble— all of the same are hereby ab- 
rogated and abolished. 

T/iird — The credit of the Realm is hereby re-established on a specie 






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basis, and all securities, of wbatever nature, are declared to rule at 
par value. Any jjerson, subject or foreign, detected at any attempt 
at their lU'iJreeiation will be immediately incarcerated in the lowest 
dungeon of the Donjonkeep. 

cif Uie peace, working all 
liiist good taste and deii- 
-Innies. will be immedi- 
I'ld tr.Kips : and our well 
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All subjects guilty of :iii\ Iiiva. 
liplion of disorder la ill; m . 
ili'-plav of outre or in iiim|ii r 
:r,l t,."tlir liaiTa.ks if 111. !'. .Ir- 
ani. C.l. .\. S. I'.ail'j-. I-. I a|.|a 
prrsi.ll ..r hi,- .MajrMy. i- la l. li\ rhal,-. .1 \ 
of this order under in-ualtj in delault tli 
tend the meeting of the Academy of Natural Sciences for the entire 
year. 

Fifth — The market rale of cotton is hereby established for this day 
at fifty cents per pound, low middling grade, and for sugar at 2.5 
cents per pound, other products of the realm to grade iu proportion. 
Any pnlijcft vinlnting this edict w-ill, upon trial and conviction be 
M III. 111-. .1 I., s. ivc not more than one term at hard labor in the Louis- 
iana Slair 1.. .^islature. 

lSixUi-'\\\ iiuiiishments incurred by the children of the realm for 
any offences of whatever nature, committed anterior to tliis date, are 
hereby cancelled in honor of the fete of His Royal IIii,'linrfs. Parents 
or guardians disregardin.j;- the provisions of this edict are hereby sen- 
tenced to a perpetual ilipi ivatinn of their night-latch kej's. 

Seventh — All quairels. liatrcds. jealousies and vendettas heretofoi-e 
existing between any of His ^Majesty's subjects are herebj' cancelled, 
as nolliing but the most unalloyed good humor and jollity will be al- 
lowed til iirevail throughout the realm during the glorious reign of 
His JIaj. sty. 

Eiijhth- \\\ prrsdiis residing along the route of the royal pageant, 
are oidrri'd to ]ini\iili. proper extra supports for their galleiies, to 
IrstiHin anil d. coratr the same with the royal colors, [green, gold and 
pui pli-.] an.l t.i pay ilii.. oliiisani-e to his Ro3'al Highness, in passiug, 
1111(1. r p.iialtv ill liifaiilt tli.ainf of per])etual exile to the Balize. 

I.iisllj/ Si'i \\M\rn A. Sli.ne, the Right Hon. D. C. Holliday, the 
Hon. J. T. Scott, and Sir Howjuxl Smith, Physicians in Ordinary to 
His Majesty's household, haviug recommended a change of air and 
scene, the King of the Carnival will therefore be under the unpleasant 
and regretful necessity oF biddiii-j: his l.iyal Mil.j.cts adieu at sunset 
to-day. for a brief period of time : inomisiiiLi I., n turn again when his 
health, in the opinion of the Ro_val I'hysieiaiis. shall have been fully 
re-established. 

Iu doing so, it is with a profound and gratifying sense of the loyalty 
displayed by his subjects, of the cheerful and prompt alacrity with 
which his orders have been obeyed, and with the promise that on the 
occasion of his re-entry- into his capital, the splendors of to-day's pa- 
geant shall be far outshone in magniticenee and gorgeous state. 

And now, with the best wishes for their health, prosin lily and lia])- 
piness, he bids them, in anticipation of his rather siiil.l.ii d.paiture, 
an affectionate adieu. Enjoining upon them during his al.sinrr, un- 
swerving loyalty in their allegiance to the Royal House of Carnival, 
and an unimpaired continuance of that loving affection already man- 
ifest for its reigning- head, which is above all price. God save the 
King. 

Given under oiu' hand and seal, at Carnival Palace, this, the 12th 
day of Februarv, in the year of our Lord. 1872. 

REX. 



Tlic iinprececlented success of the Procession is yet too 
fresh in the recollection of our readers, to need elaboration 
in this short story ; it can, however, be readily referred to 
if desired, in all, or any of the New Orleans daily papers 
of February 14, 1872 ; from which the following short 
comments are extracted : 

It is with pleasure that the chronicler reflects that the 
work of this article was to record the dawning of a new 
era in the long history of Mardi Gras festivities, and that 
the advent has been not only brilliant but successful, the 
thousands of delighted people who were not slow to ex- 
press their enthusiasm, can fully testify. It is no easy 
matter to conduct such a spectacle satisfactorily, and it is 
therefore a cause for much gratification that in every re- 
spect the Procession of Rex, his court and kingdom, will 
be looked forward to as one, if not as the great event of 
Mardi Gras, and when he again "rides forth" the King of 
the Carnival, his loyal subjects will greet him with a wel- 
come made stronger and heartier by reason of his achieved 
success, and the assurance of additional pleasure, which 
have by his means entered into the glorious and festal 
time. 



It has opened a new era to New Orleans ; one we trust to 
see_ cultivated, and the little plant of only ten day's growth 
which yielded so bountifully of blossoms, we trust to sec 
expand, in the future, to a lusty tree, hung with the golden 
fruit, that all will be glad without exception to pluck and 
enjoy. In the old language of the sectional unpleasant- 
ness, the association of gentlemen who managed this affair, 
"covered themselves with glory." 

The benign yet firm reign of His Majesty on this occasion, 
developed one remarkable result. Although 5,000 maskers 
were assembled in Procession, yet the police statistics of 
disorder and arrests were notably .smaller on that occasion 
than any preceding Mardi Gras ; while the jollity and en- 
thusia.sm was immensely augmented. Not the slightest 
break or delay occurred in the programme, and at sunset. 
His Majesty and escort left the city, via Carrollton, en route 
for Assyria. 

Previous to leaving, His Majesty ordered the Lcgi.slature 
of Louisiana to eonistitute his fete day a legal holiday. 
Which order was promptly complied with, as will be seen 
by the following extract from the daily press of April 4th, 
at which point the King of the Carnival story closes for 
the present. 



-MARDI GRAS. 



H. R. H. HEARD FROM. 



Yesterday the bill passed by the last Legislature, making 
Mardi Gi-as a legal holiday, was signed by Governor War- 
moth and has now become a law ; in compliance with the 
last strict orders issued by his Majesty of the Carnival 
before leaving our city on the 18th of February last. No- 
tice of this act of submission and homage to his supreme 
domination was immediately dispatched b the Governor 
of the State, after affixing his signatitre, to the office of the 
Lord High Chamberlain at Carnival Palace. UiJon its re- 
ception the guai'd was immediately tui'ned out, the Royal 
standard was displayed itpon the battlements, and the guns 
of the Citadel flrecl a Royal salvo in honor of the act of 
obeisance. 

In the evening, a bearer of dispatches, duly attended, 
left the city with the notification for His Majesty, who is 
now- on his way to Assyria, where he proposes to spend the 
summer in travelling for the benefit of his I.ealth. 

The last information received at the Palace, was to the 
efl'ect that his majesty was then at Malta, recuperating for 
his further journey. He was at the time engaged in the 
preparation and perfection of many Patents of Nobility ; 
it being his royal intention to create a Peerage in his newly 
conquered dominions, in order to add still further to the 
magnificence of his reign and state. The commission bear- 
ing these graceful evidences of royal condescension were 
expected to leave for New Orleans in the course of three 
or four weeks, and pending their arrival, his ambitious 
subjects who aspire to .share their honors, must restrain 
impatience. 

It was also given out at Malta, that his Majesty's army 
was now actively recruiting in Assyria, with a view to im- 
mediately placing his realm upon a war footing, impelled 
thereto by the warlike preparations going on throuLhout 
Europe, and the threatening attitude of the LTnited States 
army towards the South under the oiieration of the Kuklux 
law. 

Ilis Majesty, at last accounts, was reported much im- 
proved in health, but somewhat jaded by the fatigues of 
travel. Although in his 102:")th year, he is said to have 
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leans, and now presents a most imposing appearance. His 
Majesty's leisure moments are constantly occupied with 
making plans for his next/ete, to which he looks forward 
to with pride and satisfaction. Having definitely settled 
upon the final ti'ansfer of his seat of govei'nment from the 
shores of the Mediterranean to those of the Mississippi, it 
is to be expected that his entry on the ensuing Mardi (iras 
in 1873, will far surpass in splendor and ceremony, anything 
ever witnessed in any country duiing the present age. The 
preparations are certainly upon a stupendous scale, and 
with the active co-operation of his loyal, loving subjects, so 
freely and cordially extended, he feels that nothing is im- 
possible. 

GOD SAVE THE KING 1 



[Note. — In excellent antl responsible hands, embracing a large 
number of our most highly esteemed and responsible citizens, The 
King of the CarniTal, whose origin is herein related, has now be- 
come a permanent institution of New Orleans. Its design and ob- 
ject while pleasurable and aesthetic have still a practical and ul- 
terior object in benefitting the City of New Orleans, commercially 
and socially. It not only oflers increased attractions to visitors 
from abroad, but in all the festivities arranged, or consequent 
thereupon, the entertainment and accommodation of the Mardi 
Oras visitors, are primarily considered in the true spirit ol hospi- 
tality. It is to be hoped that it will ever meet with the good 
wishes and encouragement which have so far marked every step 
of its progress. 

THE EXPOSITION BUILDING. 



This beautiful and imposing structure has lately been 
added to the ornaments of om- city by the South Western 
Exi^osition Associatiou. 

The purpose for which it was erected was to establish a 
PERMANENT and attractive place for the exhibition and 
sale of all manufactured articles used in the South. 

The fact that New Orleans is the commercial centre of 
the Southwest, and that through her is supplied a vast 
agricultural population, requiring the manufactures of 
other sections, pointed out the great advantage to the con- 
sumers of the articles, as well as to the manufacturers, of 
the establishment of the permanent Exposition and manu- 
facturers salesroom in the Exposition building. The 
Planter or the Merchant here sees collected under one im- 
mense roof every article he can need, from the steam 
engine, cotton gin or sugar mill, down to the smallest ar- 
ticle needed in his household, all of the latest and most 
improved styli'. 

The manufacturer here has an opportunity for bringing 
the article itself which he makes directly before the atten- 
tion of the consumer, a far more effective plan of intro- 
ducing and selling than by trusting only to descriptive cir- 
culars and engravings. In short the manufacturer is thus 
brought face to face with the consumer, and the latter is 
enabled to decide satisfactorily upon the merits of any ar- 
ticle he may need, because he has an opportunity of per- 
sonally examining and testing it before purchasing. It 
will thus be seen that the enterprise is one of great im- 
portance to the trade of this section. 



Tlie association was incorporated in October 1871. 
Early in the Spring of that year the originator of the en- 
terprise, Mr. Henry Shaw, first suggested its advantages 
to some of our leading capitalists. The first to take an 
active part in it, was the late John Davidson, Esq., a gen- 
tleman always ready to use his large means and influence 
in the futherance of any enterprize promising public ben- 
efit. Amongst the other incorporators wei'e Messrs. 
Richard Lloyd, Charles J. Leeds, Jas. D. Hill, Geo. Pru-ves, 
Samuel H. Kennedy, Harmon Doane, L. F. Generes, John 
G. Fleming, all prominent and well known gentlemen of 
this city. 

Immediately after the organization of the association a 
large property on St. Charles and Carondelet, between 
Julia and Girod Street, was purchased, and the services of 
Mr. Albert Dietiel, architect, were engaged to prepare 
plans for the Exposition Building. 

The contract was awarded on the 21st of December, 
1871, and by the 1st of May 1872, the association was able 
to give their inaugui'ating exposition of the manufacture 
of the country, the building being by that time sufficiently 
finished for their purpose. The inaugiu'ating exhibition 
was continued until June 1st, at which time the pennanent 
exposition opened under most favorable auspices and is 
now an assured success. 

The following dimensions will give an idea of the scale 
upon which the Exposition building is constructed. 

Occup}-ing a front of 85 feet on both St. Charles and 
Carondelet streets, it runs through the Square by straight 
lines 341 feet. The entire building is built of brick, with 
a slate roof, and in its exterior appearance as well as its 
interior arrrangement and adornment, is an ornament to 
the City of New Oi-leans, of which her people may well be 
proud. The whole of the first floor, a hall of 341 feet by 
85, is devoted to the exhibition and sale of heavy ma- 
chinery and agricultural implements, a line of shafting, 
driven by a powerful engine, traverses this hall from end 
to end, furnishing facilities for .showing machinery in 
motion. In the second story, Carondelet street end, is 
located the Fine Arts and Miscellaneous Departments, a 
hall 170 feet long by 81 feet wide, filled witli all lands of 
useful and ornamental articles. In addition to these two 
large and elegant exhibition rooms for the disjjlay of man- 
ufacturers articles, a Concert Hall 170 feet long by 81 in 
width, with a 40 foot ceiling was constructed. Decidedly 
the handsomest room of the kind in the South. And over 
the Fine Arts Hall on Carondelet street are two Halls, one 
60x60 feet for use in connection with the Grand Concert 
Hall, and the other 90 feet by 60 feet, to be used as a 
Lectui'e Room, etc. 

The beautiful fresco work and interior adornment of 
these Halls is done under the direction of Mr. F. Hang, 
and reflects great credit upon his artistic skill and taste. 

This entire enterprise has been carried forward from the 
beo-inning with an energy and determination on the part of 
the managers of the Association, which was worthy of the 
success which it has already attained, and which is a sure 
augury of its future stability. 



JEWELL'S CRESCENT CITY ILLUSTRATED. 



OFFICE OF THE 



LOUISIANA STATE LOTTERY COMPANY, 




VoMMEm OF St. Ca^BhEB m^B Umiom 

NEW ORLEANS. 



JEWELL'S CRESCENT CITY ILLUSTRATED. 




E. A. TYLER, ESQ. 



The life of this gentleman, who has been the architect of 
his own fortune, has been marked by adventure and a 
spirit of enteiprise peculiar to the natives of New Eng- 
land, and been crowned by remarkable success. Few cit- 
izens of New Orleans have been more distinguished for de- 
votion to business, in his particular department of Art, for 
reliability, intelligence and public spirit. By the steadfast- 
ness, manliness and energy, which have constituted lead- 
ing traits of his character, by the loftiness of his aims, and 
the purity of his motives, he has acquired a multitude of 
friends and admirers, and has left the impress of his his- 
tory on that of the gi'eat metropolis with whose fortunes 
his own have blended for more than a quarter of a cen- 
tui-y. 

Mr. Tyler was born in Boston, Mass., on the 22nd of 
April 1815, commencing life at the date of the declaration 
of peace after the second war with Great Britain. His 
early education was pursued in the Boston schools, always 
remarkable for the advantages they oiTered for moral and 
mental culture — if not superior than of any other Ameri- 
can city. From the age of twelve years, he earned his own 
living. When he reached fourteen, he became apprenticed 
to the watch-making and jewelry business, which has ever 
since been his vocation. In 1834, he went to Belfast, 
Maine, where he remained four years in the same occupa- 
tion. At the expiration of that period, he determined to 
remove to New Orleans, where fortunes, he understood, 
were readily made by young men of intelligence, enter- 
terprise and steady habits. The journey before him was 
an expensive one, and he had but little money ; bat nothing 
daunted by the fact, he resolved, by obtaining business 
on the route, as he had opportunity, to woi'k his way 
hither. 

It was the commencement of his great life struggles, but 



he was animated by youthful hope and a courage fitted to 
the emergency. He accoidingly, in April 1838, left Bel- 
fast, and started from Boston, his native city, eai'ly the 
following May, with only forty-two dollars in his pocket. 
After remaining a few days in New York and Philadelphia, 
he left for the West by the way of Pittsburg, thence to 
Cincinnati. Here he lingered a few days, looking around 
for business, but, not obtaining any, paid his hotel bill, and 
found he had only eighteen cents left for the j)rosecution of 
his journey ; whereupon he packed his tools in his valiee, 
left his trunk with an old schoolmate, and, with valise in 
his hand, crossed the Ohio river to Covington. Here he 
struck the turnpike road to Lexington — walked twelve 
miles to the first village, stopped there a few days, repaired 
watches, clocks and jewelry, and in a week made seventeen 
dollars beyond expenses. He then went to the next vil- 
lage, Crittenden, where he made sixteen dollars over ex- 
penses ; thence to Williamsburgh, where he only paid his 
expenses. There he took the stage to Lexington, where, 
after remaining several days and finding nothing to do, he 
gratified his curiosity by visiting Henry Clay, the servant 
of the nation, with whom every citizen had a right to be 
acquainted. He also went to see the celebrated Irving Es- 
tates. Thence he proceeded to Nicholasville, where he did 
not do much that increased his resoui-ces, but received a 
letter from a gentleman in Cynthiana, holding out some 
promises to him if he would visit that place. He retm-ned 
to Lexington, and, after making friends, and spending 
most of his money in sight-seeing, went to Paris by stage, 
and thence walked, a distance of twelve miles, to Cynthiana, 
got a ducking in a stream which he had to ford, besides 
being thoioughly soaked in a shower — arrived late in the 
day at the hotel kept by a gentleman named Boyd, and 
Itnowing, from certain premonitions, that he was going to 
be sick, frankly told his host of the fact, informing him at 
the same time of his inability to defray his expenses. The 
latter assured him with true Kentucky liberality, that he 
need give himself no uneasiness about the matter, and that 
he was quite welcome to the best that could be done for 
him under the circumstances. 

A comfortable room was assigned him in the hotel, and 
a doctor immediately sent for to whom he was equally 
frank in making known his circimistances. This Kentucky 
Doctor told him that he never asked people if they had 
money ; all that he had to do was to take the medicine he 
gave him, and obey orders ; if he did not recover, it would 
be no fault of his. Mr. Tyler, in referring to this part of 
his history, testifies that he never knew a nobler or better 
hearted man than Dr. Deshoa, (son of ex-Governor Deshea) 
and Mr. Boyd, the hotel keeper. On his recovery, he com- 
menced business in earnest. It accummulated on his hands. 
His friends increased in number — among others — A. Broad- 
well, Esq., one of the wealthiest citizens in Kentucky. 

Early in October he left Cynthiana for the South. The 
Ohio river being so low that no boats could be run upon it, 
he returned to Lexington ; thence he went, by stage, to 
Nashville, Tenn., where he met with a fiiend who accom- 
panied him to Mill's Point, Ky., the nearest point at which 
to take a boat for New Orleans. This little town was 



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crowcled with parties waiting to obtain a passage. Among 
them were those whole soulecl planters, Duncan F. 
Kenner, Alexander Barrow, and several others, with their 
families. After waiting foiu- days, two boats came down 
the river, when all embarked, late in the evening, on board 
the Somerville, except hunself and friend, who took pas- 
sage in the Prairie, (Capt. Freligh,) which, encountering 
a fog, was obliged to lay up duiing the' night. Next 
morning, coming up with the Somerville, found she had 
nm on a snag— worked with all hands, all day, to get 
her off. Finally, the passengers on the Somerville came on 
board the Prairie, and on the ninth day of their embarka- 
tion, reached New Orleans. 

On his arrival in the Crescent City, Mr. Tyler was so for- 
tunate as to find an old friend and acquaintance, a jeweler 
at IS Chartres sti-eet. He induced this artisan to rent him 
his window fronting on the street, and immediately com- 
menced business, retaining the locality four years, when he 
removed to 37 Camp street, with better accommodations, 
and where he remamed with varying fortunes, the good 
however attaining the ascendancy, when, through the in- 
fluence of Rev Father Mnllen, he was so fortunate as to 
secure his present elegant and extensive establishment on 
Canal street, in the most thronged and fashionable part of 
the city— certainly an excellent Stand for his business, and 
where, by his enterprise, he has succeeded in amassing a 
large fortune. 

Mr. Tyler is a model American, who, like most of our 
people engaged in various branches of commerce, is doubt- 
less fond of accumulation, but who eschews avarice and 
employs his wealth to noble ends, the advancement of all 
our social interests, including all public and private 
charities, I'elieving distress whenever brought to his notice, 
lending a helping hand to the unfortunate, and always anx- 
ious to recognize and reward merit. No object of great 
public utility is started in the community that does 
not find in him a zealous and liberal supporter. He was 
one of the original projectors and proprietors of the Fair 
Grounds, whose annual exhibitions have done so much to 
the advancement of our agricultural, mechanical, commer- 
cial and manufacturing interests. 

During the inundation of the city which occurred some- 
what upwards of a year ago, he proved himself equal to 
the crisis, being one of the largest contributors for the i-e- 
lief of the houseless sufferers. He has been, for many 
years, one of the most prominent leaders in the Church of the 
Messiah, on St. Charles street, and an influential individual 
in commercial circles as Director of the Bank of Lafayette. 
Dm-ing the late war, he acted earnestly with the State of 
his adoption, to which his allegiance was due. He was 
giiilty of no offense, but, being one of om- most prominent 
citizens. General Butler regarded his opinions dangerous, 
and accordingly applied the gag of imprisonment, and 
had him sent to Fort Jackson, where he was confined four 
months. His friends, who were permitted to have no com- 
munication v,-ith him, and hearing nothing from him, sup- 
posed that he was dead, and when it was supposed that he 
actually would die, he was released on a bond for- ten thou- 
sand dollars. His arrest took place on the same day with 
that of the late Dr. Warren Stone. 



On the 22nd of September 1840, he married Miss Julia 
A. Barnes, of Cambridge, Mass. The ceremony was per- 
formed by Rev. Dr. Charles Lowell, of Boston, at Lj-nde 
street church. He has had five children, of whom three 
are still living. 

AVithout pride or ostentation, he has yet surrounded 
himself with all the comforts and elegancies of life. His 
residence on St. Charles sti-eet, is one of the most beauti- 
ful in the city. Its gai-den, filled with the choicest flowers 
and shrubbery, and all its appointments, bespeak the man 
of taste and refinement. His energy, his jjublic virtues, 
the wealth acquired by his own skill and industry, and the 
uses to which he employs it, entitle him in fine, to be re- 
gai'ded one of the mei'chant princes of this great em- 
porium. 

CHARLES CAVAROC, ESQ. 



Mr. C. Cavaroc, President of the New Orleans National 
Banking Association, of the New Orleans Mutual Insur- 
ance Association, and of several other companies organ- 
ized for industrial or commercial purposes, is one of the 
representasive men of the Latin I'ace in Louisana. 

Mr. Cavaroc was born in New Orleans in 1828, of French 
parents, and received his education in the mothei' country 
of his progenitors. He first entered into business as clerk 
in the general wine importing house of T. M. Lucas on 
Royal street, and uj)on the death of Mr. Lucas, which oc- 
curred in 1851, he took charge of the business in which 
his success was both steady and rapid. This was owing no 
less to the strict integrity than to the thorough knowledge 
of this branch of trade posesssed by the able merchant 
who is the subject of this sketch. In 1808, Mr. Cavaroc 
was called to the Presidency of the Bank of New Orleans 
at a veiy ciitical period of the career of that bank, whose 
stock was then much depressed owing to heavy losses con- 
sequent upon the late civil war. Under the skillful man- 
agement of its new President, this institution soon recov- 
ered from its disasters, and the stock I'ose in a few months 
from §16 to 830. A year ago the New Orleans Bank was 
reoigauized as a National Bank, with a capital of §600- 
000, and under its present title of the New Oi'leans Na- 
tional Banking Association, and it now stands in the front 
rank of our financial institutions. In 1870, the New Or- 
leans Mutual Insui'ance As.sociation was oi'ganized by Mr. 
Cavaroc upon an entirely new plan, the particulars of 
which are given elsewhere, and its success has been such 
as to realize the most sanguine auticipations of its founder 
and stockholders. 

Mr. Cavaroc is not only one of the most successful and 
enterprising merchants of New Orleans, but also one of its 
most public spirited and liberal citizens. There is hai-dly 
an undertaking calculated to enhance the prosperity of our 
city or State in which he has not taken a prominent part, 
and in private life his charities have all been munificent as 
well as judiciously bestowed. 

He is emphatically a pushing, go ahead, live merchant, a 
useful citizen, and an honorable, high-toned gentlomai. 
There are few men whose lf>ss would be more universally 
felt in this comniuuity than Charles Cavaroc. 



JEWELL'S CEESOENT CITT ILLUSTRATED. 




'm& STOBT 'mimfEQ, 



JEWELL'S CRESCENT CITY ILLUSTRATED. 




OllIlIlS' lAim 



JEWELL'S CRESCENT CITY ILLUSTRATED. 



THE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES. 



The New Orleans Academy of Sciences was founded in 
1853 by a number of gentlemen belonging exclusively to 
the medical profession. The first meeting, held on the 21st 
of March of that year, was presided over by D. Beiniet 
Dowler, whose devotion to scientific pursuits is well known. 
On the 25th of April following, Dr. Josiah Hale was elected 
President and a constitution was adopted. In May, corre- 
spondence with the Smithsonian Institute at Washington 
wa.s opened, and a promise of its co-opei'ation obtained. 
That pi'omise, commencing with contributions in the fol- 
lowing October, has been constantly and liberally fulfilled, 
and now the Academy is in communication with most of 
the great scientific institutions of various parts of this con- 
tinent and Euro2;)e. At first the meetings of the Academy 
were held at the pi'ivate residences of members. Subse- 
quently, the gratuitous use of a room was obtained in the 
City Hall, then the hall of the Mechanic's Institute was 
rented, and on the 21st of November of the same year, a 
hall at the southeast corner of Poydras and Carondelet 
streets, rented for the jjurpose, became the place of meet- 
ing. On the 5th of December, the Academy subscribed 
lor foui-teen scientific publications, the members assessing 
themselves for this expense, as they had for all others. On 
the 6th of March following, the Academy oixlered the pub- 
lication of its pi'oceediugs, and on the same day Dr. E. H. 
Barton was elected President. 

The object of tlie Academy is the promotion of science 
by lectures, papers, and discussions on scientific subjects, 
and by the collection of a library and museum. The year 
1853, it will be recollected, was one in which fearful havoc 
was made by an epidemic ; but the Academy, nevertheless, 
perserved in its jjrescribed coui'se, and progressed to a firm 
establishment, without any material aid or sympathy or aid 
from either the authorities or the general public. The first 
paper was read by Dr. B. Dowler, on the 30th of May. 
On the 27th March 1854, the late Professor J. L. Riddell 
exhibited before the Academy one of the most interesting 
and useful improvements yet achieved in aid of scientific 
research. This was a binocular microscoj)e which he had 
constructed, and the honor of inventing wliich is univer- 
sally conceded to him. As since improved and simplified, 
under the designs of Mr. Wenhom, and the manufacture of 
the famous Beck, this instrument has now become the great 
microscope of the world. On the same day the Academy 
earnestly discussed the necessity for a geological survey of 
the State, and adopted a resolution to present to the Legis- 
lature a reconmiendation that it should be made. Although 
this has not been done, Professor Hilgard has, under the 
auspices of the Academy, made some surveys of parts of 
the State, the results of which have been given to the 
public through the newspapers. 

On November 6th 1854, the Academy again changed its 
place of meeting to a room in the City Hall, which the 
Council had appropriated for the pm'pose, tliis room being 
subsequently changed for another. On the 5th of March 
1855, Dr. Riddell was elected President. A few days after- 
ward the Academy was incorporated, and made a branch 
of the University of Louisiana, subject, in a great measure, 



THE SYNAGOGUE ON CARONDELET STREET. 



This beautiful liouse of worship is owned and used by 
the Hebrew Congi-egation, " Dispersed of Judah," whose 
charter of incorporation dates from 4th June 1847, though 
its organization had talien place some years previously. Its 
present vitality and prosperity are, however, mainly due to 
the benevolence of the late Judah Touro, who made the 
congregation a free gift of the church edifice which stood 
on Canal and Boxu-bon streets, and at his own cost fitted it 
up and converted it into a synagogue. 

A few years later, this building requiring extensive re- 
pairs, it was decided to pull it down and build another 
place of worship located further up-town. Accordingly, 
the present edifice was erected on Carondelet street, on six 
lots of gromid which had, at one time, fonned a portion of 
the Poydi-as Estate. 

The mode of service is according to the Sephardic 
ritual, known commonly as that of the Spanish and Poitu- 
guese Jews, though with some modernization. 

The present minister is the Rev. Hem-y S. Jacobs. 



to the discretion of the administrators of the University. ' 
On the 26th of May, with this status, the Academy met in 1 
the east wing of the University buildings, although it was | 
not till 1860 that the administrators formally acknowledged ! 
the Academy as a branch of the University, and then with ! 
a condition that they might disconnect it by giving a year's : 
written notice. 

During the war, the buildings were taken possession of 
by the military, and much of the property of the Academy 
was lost, destroyed and injured ; that it was not all sacri- 
ficed was due to the exertions and influence of Dr. Rid- 
dell. After the war, the Academy, not without much 
struggling, however, soon re-established itself in its efi'orts 
and regained its foi-mer position withovit any outside aid 
whatever. On the death of Dr. Riddle, in 1806, Dr. Co[ies 
was elected President, as he still remains. 

The Academy gives weekly lectures, except during the 
summer, besides holding general discussions on scientific 
subjects, politics and religion being excluded. These are 
open to the public gratuitously, under invitation from 
members, which, however, is all but nominal, and the hall 
of the Academy is open to visitors daily in the same man- 
ner. The records of the Academy contain a great deal of 
very interesting and instructive mformation upon a great 
variety of subjects, many of them of the highest import- 
ance in connection with the welfare and progress of the 
city and State. The library contains very valuable contri- 
butions from leading scientific societies in various parts of 
the world. The Museum, though comparatively small, con- 
tains conchological, geological, palfeontologieal and other 
collections well worthy of examination. 

Election to membership, under the rules, requires recog- 
nized scientific acquu'ements, nomination and recommenda- 
tion by two or more Fellows, posting for one month and 
ballot. 

The institution is one which needs and deserves much 
more consideration from the authorities and the public of 
the city and State than it has yet received, and we hope 
yet to see it I'ecognized as worthy of liberal countenance 
and support. 



JEWELL'S CRESCENT CITY ILLUSTRATED. 




GEORGE A FOSDICK, ESQ. 



Tuis enterprising merchant, largely identified with the 
shipping interests of New Orleans, affords in his career a 
striking illustration of the influence exerted by talent, 
energy and perseverance, in a country like ours, in over- 
coming difficulties, and of attaining, in the end, to success, 
fortune and independence. From childhood up to man- 
hood, he wasted no golden moments in frivolous occupa- 
tions and idle amusements, but regarding labor as the 
great law of life, first with a view to subsistence and next 
to comfort and elegance, exerted all his physical and intel- 
lectual powers in order to the attainment of these ends. 
Exemplary success has crowned his well-directed efforts. 

He was the son of Capt. W. R. Fosdick, who, for a series 
of years, commanded one of the first packet .ships I'unning 
between New York and New Orleans, and was born at the 
former city. May 3, 18"20. At the early age of twelve 
years, he had the misfortune to lose his father, and was 
thus suddenly thrown on his own resources. Of a respecta- 
ble family, active and intelligent, and with no indisposition 
to labor for a living, he found little difficulty in obtaining 
employment in the commission house of .1 nines Hamilton 
& Son, of New York city, who paid him a salary of fifty 
dollars for the first year; and the American boy, who 
could command fifty dollars a year, when he was not yet in 
his teens, was somebody, and he felt that he was. So he 
went to work with a will, looking to the future. Here he 
remained for five years, until the crisis of 1887, which 
swept off most of the mercantile houses of the country — 
diu'ing which period he worked in the daytime and con- 
tinued his educational studies at night, his salai-y being in- 
creased from year to year, as he gi'ew older and more 
capable of being of service to his employers. He was not 
yet in the way of making a fortune, but certainly — which 
was far bettor— was passing thi-ough the preliminary stages 
necessary to make him a man of business and a thorough 
merchant. 



In 1837, the calamitous year referred to, he left New 
York and came South, first stopping for a while at Mobile, 
seeking business in vain, and then coming to New Orleans, 
where he was equally unsuccessful. He now embarked on 
the Tombigbee, which seemed to invite the adventiirer, sail- 
ing up as high as Westport, Miss., a .small town situated 
about two miles above Columbusf on the other side of the 
river. Here he was emjiloyed, for the space of eighteen 
months, by Dunstan Banks, doing a supply business. 

In the meantime, his brother had established himself at 
New Orleans in the shipping and commission business, 
and, knowing his industrious habits, at once took him into 
the concern in the capacity of a clerk. This was in 1839. 
In 1840, he became associated with him as a partner in the 
business, which he has prosecuted with singular energy 
and success ever since. Taught in the school of hard ex- 
perience, making the most of his opportunities, taking no 
step forward without being sure of his footing, he has at- 
tained the enviable position he occupies, and the fame he 
has achieved of an accomplished and prosperous merchant, 
by relying mainly on his own exertions, and depending but 
little on the uncertain, however well meant, advice and 
fluctuating assistance of others. In other words, he fur- 
nishes a fine examj)le of the self-made man, who thinks for 
himself and acts for himself, and who entertains opinions 
and prosecutes entei'pi'ises which reflect credit on the age 
and country in which he lives. 

Such men, in a community of high-toned merchants like 
New Orleans, are advanced to places of honor and respon- 
sibility, and may command almost any position that they 
please. For two years Mr. Fosdick occupied the high post 
of President of the Chamber of Commerce, to which no 
individual could have been appointed who was not at once 
a thorough merchant and a perfect gentleman. The pres- 
sure of his business, after his service in that capacity for 
the term mentioned, led him to decline a re-election ; but 
he is still an influential member of the Chamber, and a 
perspicuity and forethought that lead him to investigate 
the past and anticipate the future, he seizes on every occa- 
sion calculated to advance the interests of this great mart 
of commerce. 

Again, he was the first delegate elected to the National 
Board of Trade at Philadelphia, where he exerted a decided 
influence in securing the passage of a resolution of that 
body, calling on Congress to grant immediate aid to im- 
prove the mouth of the Mississippi river. 

He has always taken a lively interest in jDolitics, having 
acted as Chairman of the Democratic Committee since the 
war, and Chairman of the Douglas State Democratic Com- 
mittee and Co-operative Committee before the war. 
■' He has never held any public office except that of State 
Registrar on the First Board of Registration, a position 
which he accepted solely at the request of the State and 
Parish Democratic Committees, in the hope of accomplish- 
ing some good for our people, thoiigh at a sacrifice to his 
personal interests. He was nominated for Congress by the 
Second District Convention in 1870, but withdrew at the 
request of the Democratic State Committee, to enable them 
to carry out a fusion which they contemplated. 



JEWELL'S CRESCENT CITY ILLUSTRATED. 



B, T. WALSHE 

Iinpoi-ter of and. Dealer in. 



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Men's Shirts. 




ESlCLOTHINl 



Boys' Shirts, 



Underwear, 




EN1S 

HING&OOD 



i Underwear. 



Gloves. 



AND 



Hosiery, 




For all ages. 



Umbrellas &c. 



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B0¥8' AND CHILDREN'S CLOTHING, 



NEW ORLEANS. 



JEWELL'S CRESCENT CITY ILLUSTRATED. 




f SI SIi4nCIEf 11 UQ'UB'm, 



About foui* miles below Canal street, immediately above 
the dividing line of the parishes of Orleans and St. Ber- 
nard, and about two hundred yards below the United 
States Barracks, stands the aggregation of buildings of 
which a partial view is herewith exhibited. This is the 
spot where the law prescribes that all animals intended for 
our markets must be slaughtered, under the supervision of 
officials appointed, some by the State and others by the 
" Crescent City Live Stock Landing and Slaughter House 
Company," 

The ai'rangements for carrying out the objects contem- 
plated by the law creating the Slaughter Houses are very 
complete. There are two wharves for landing the stock, 
with pens for receiving them iipon the Levee. Immedi- 
ately adjoining the wharves, and also upon the Levee, is a 
building containing a pumping aj)paratus worked by steam 
and capable of supplying 150,000 gallons of water daily to 
the entire establishment. Fronting the public road, a row 
of one-story buildings contains the telegraph, the compa- 
ny's offices and also the private offices of Messrs. C. Mehle 
& Co., Inbau, Aycock & Co., and L. B. Collins, live stoclj 
dealers. 

In the rear of these offices at 200 feet from the public 
road, there are twelve large covered cattle pens, 67 by 15 
feet each, where the live stock are first placed for in- 
spection and sold to the various stock dealers who are 
always in attendance. Adjoining these are the main pens 
for cattle, twenty-eight in number, and each one having 
the dimensions of 75 feet by 17, and also eighteen hog 
pens for sheep and other cattle. After these you come to 



the large hog and sheep slaughter house, 265 by 80 feet, 
which is constantly supplied with hot and cold water, pul- 
leys, etc. On the right hand as you look toward the river, 
is another immense building containing twenty-two divi- 
sions 32 by 25 feet for slaughtering beeves and calves, each 
division having in its rear two large pens 60 by 10 feet for 
receiving the cattle previous to slaughtering. Fronting 
the above building from which they are separated by a 
broad paved alley for carts are twenty-two stables for the 
horses of the butchers, and next to these, nearer to the 
river, are covered vats for salting and ciu-ing the hides. 
Some fifty feet in the rear of the whole is another steam 
engine, and a little fui-ther back of this stands the Blood 
Fertilizer Manufactory, occupying a space of 200 feet 
square, lodging horses for the employees etc. The out- 
houses are all new and in perfect order, and in another 
part of the grounds there is an apparatus for curing hides 
by acids in two hours, and Esteban's large sheep-skin tan- 
nery. The other buildings are rented by the company to 
various parties, who are principally cotfee-house and tavern 
keepers. The charges for slaughtering are as follows : 
Beeves . . . . SI 00 per head. 

Calves .... 50 " 

Hogs .... 50 " 

Sheep . . . • 30 " _ 

The average number of cattle slaughtei-ed daily is about 
700 during the summer, and from 900 to 1.100 in the win- 
ter. With the present arrangements there is ample accom- 
modation for the slaughter of 1,500 head of cattle daily, 
and these facilities can be increased to any extent, the 



JEWELL'S CRESCENT CITY ILLUSTRATED. 



company owning 240 acres of land. All the buildings, 
pens and slaughter houses are lighted by Barbarin's appa- 
ratus, at the charge of the company. 

The Slaughter House company was incorporated in the 
summer of 1869, and at its inception met with much oppo- 
sition from the butchers and live stock dealers, but a com- 
promise having been effected on the 15th March 1871, be- 
tween the contending parties, a new Board was elected, 
composed almost entirely of stock dealers and butchers, 
under whose administration the present location of the 
Slaughter House was purchased from the Butcher's Asso- 
ciation and the operations transferred from the right bank 
to this side of the river. The officers of the company for 
the present year (elected March 15, 1872,) are as follows : 

President C. Cavaroc. 

Secretary J- N. Augustin. 

Superintendent .... John Dolhonde. 
Directors : L. E. Lemarie, C. De Ruyter, P. Sarthon, L. 
Ruch, E. F. Mioton, C. A. Weed, J. Donaldson, J. N. 
Avegno. 

THE CITY PARK. 



THE NEW ORLEANS ST. ANDREW'S SOCIETY. 



Between the old and new canals fronting for about one 
mile, on the Metairie Road lies the property bequeathed to 
the city for a Public Park by the late John McDonough. 
Being about half a mile in depth it contains an area of 
about half of a square mile. The Park is crossed in one 
direction by the Orleans Canal, and in another by the bed 
of the Metaire Bayou, recently diied by drainage. In 
front the Park is high and it was not overflowed by the 
flood of 1871, when the city was submerged from the swamp 
up to Rampart street and when 20,000 inhabitants for sev- 
eral days could only move from theu- houses by means of 
boats and rafts. In the rear the once marshy land has been 
rendered solid and dry in consequence of the opening of 
tlie Orleans canal and Taylor's canal but the thick under- 
growth of palmetto weeds and grass still obstruct pas- 
sages by any but hunters. 

The Park is abundantly supplied with enonnous Live Oak 
shade trees some of which measure twenty feet in circum- 
ference and spread their massive branches fifty feet in all 
directions from theu- gigantic trunlvs. These will be re- 
tained for ornament and shelter when the city governmeiit 
begins to make improvements. No attempts have yet been 
made to lay out or adorn the Park although the donor has 
been dead more than twenty years. The extension of the city 
in the direction of the Lake will in a few years render the 
adornment and protection of the Park more important. 
When the time arrives the productive soil of the Park will 
give a quick response to the labor of those who may plant 
it with trees, flowers and shrubbery . 



Annunciation Squake, in the First District, is the 
largest, and, consequently, may some day become the most 
elegant in the city. Orange and Race streets are on its 
front and rear — and facing are some very tasteful private 
residences — the handsomest of which is that of Mr. E. J. 
Hart. 



The commendable friendship which Scotchmen enter- 
tain for each other, when worthy of their respect, and the 
pride and fondness with which they recall the valor and 
glory of their Fatherland, and the fame of their distin- 
guished men, acquired in war, letters or civil life, are pro- 
verbial all the world over. It is with a view to cement, 
vitalize and perpetuate sentiments so honoi'able to them as 
men and patriots, that in several cities of the American 
Union to which they have emigrated from the Old World, 
they have formed themselves into associations bearing the 
above characteristics and time-honored titles. Another 
and leading object of the .society is the encouragement and 
promotii i (not by words only of sympathy, which they do 
not withhold, but by positive acts,) of the greatest of the 
virtues, charity. The objects of the association are suc- 
cinctly stated in the preamble to its constitution as follows : 

" Whereas, A number of the citizens of Ni w Orleans, 

Scotchmen by birth, desu'ous of cultivating the friendship 

and promoting the wdfare of each other and of assisting 

their countrymen in sickness and distress, have banded 

themselves together for these philanthropic and charitable 

purposes, they cordially and earnestly invite all respecta- | 

ble Scotchmen, residing in New Orleans and suburbs, to I 

. I 

join them in the above good works ; that, by their cordiali- 

ty and good-will to each other, they may show to the 

world that the countryxaen of Wallace, Bui-ns and Scott 

still love their country." 

The New Orleans St. Andrew's Society was incorporated 
March 11, A. D. 1837, and reorganized October 27, 1868. 
During the late war its meetings were suspended. The 
officers of the society consist of a President, Vice-Presi- 
dent, Secretary, Treasurer and nine Directors, chosen by a 
majority of the members present, by ballot, at the meeting 
immediately preceding St. Andrew's Day. Any native of 
Scotland, or person of Scotch descent, who has attained 
the age of eighteen years, and bears a good moral character, 
may be admitted a member of the society ; and the society 
may, at any time, confer honorary membership on any per- 
son of whatever nation he may be, whenever they may 
deem it proper. Application for membership is to be ad- 
dressed in writing to the President and members of the 
society, inclosing the initiation fee of $5. At the next 
regular meeting, a committee of three reports on the quali- 
fication of the applicant, and if the report be favorable he 
is elected by a two-thirds ballot. In case of rejection, the 
initiation fee is retui*ned. By Article 13th of the Consti- 
tution, every member is required to contribute and pay to 
_the funds of the society $1 each month into the hands of 
the Treasurer. 

St. Andrew's Day and the anniversaries of the birth of 
Robert Burns and Sir Walter Scott are usually celebrated 
by the society with appropriate ceremonies and festivities. 

The present officers of the society are Alexander Hay, 
Esq., President ; Duncan Sinclair, Esq., Vice-President ; 
Alexander Mcintosh, Esq., Treasui-er ; and W. R. Russell, 
Esq., Secretary. 



JEWELL'S CRESCENT CITY ILLUSTRATED 




ElilllffOl OF 1. A, f ¥Ij1S^ li©»» 

565 St. Ckai-les Street, New Orleans.' 



JEWELL'S ORESCENT CITY ILLUSTRATED. 




JACOB C. VAN WICKLE. 



The subject of this- sketch was born in Middlesex 
County, New Jersey, on the 20th of October 1805. At an 
early age he left his native State with a view of making for 
himself both a fortune and a name. He came to Louisiana 
and settled in the Parish of Point Coujpee, in December 
1827. His temperate and industrioiis habits, favorably 
impressed the people among whom he had cast his lot, and 
it was not long before he received the appointment of 
Deputy Sheriff of the Parish, in which capacity he served 
from 1828 to 1833. He was then appointed Sheriff by 
Gov. White and subsequently re-api^ointed by Gov. Roman, 
retainining this office from 1833 to 1842. In 1845, Mr. 
Van Wickle was elected to the Lower House of the Legis- 
lature, on the Whig ticket and served his constituents with 
zeal and fidelity. His jjolitical affiliations have always been 
with the Whig Party, of which he was a consistent and 
devoted member, but political prejudices could never in- 
duce him to ignore or neglect the interests of his oppo- 
nents or make him intolerant, and the reputation he 
acquired as a politician was that of an honorable, just and 
liberal gentleman. By prudence and economy, Mr. Van 
Wickle had succeeded in amassing a sufficient amount of 
money to purchase a .sugar plantation in 1846, and from 
that time until 1869, he devoted himself entirely to the 
cultivation of sugar-cane. A series of successful crops 
soon made him a rich man. Surrounded by all the com- 
forts and luxui-ies of life, he dispensed the hospitalities of 
his house with a liberal hand. Natui'ally of a very kind 
and generous disposition, he was never deaf to appeals for 
assistance from those in distress ; and in all the relations 
of life he was an exemplary citizen and highly esteemed 
by all who know him. In 1836, he married Miss Elezar 
Ledoux, the daughter of Mr. Valerian Ledoux, one of the 
most respectable and wealthy planters in the State, and 



became the father of two lovely daughters, one only of 
whom lived to womanhood, the elder, Julia, having died at 
the age of thirteen years, whilst at school at Nazareth, Ky. 
The youBger, Miss Amanda, an interesting and handsome 
lady, married Mr. Ogden K. Dunning, of the house of J. 
E. Burnside & Co., of this city, but soon became a widow 
by the death of her husband, about three years after her 
marriage. In 1841, Mrs. Van Wickle died, and Mr. Van 
Wickle married the widow Dayries, also a member of the 
Ledoux family, and who is now in the full vigor of health, 
a devoted wife, and a most excellent and charitable lady. 
Like most of the Southern planters, Mr. Van Wickle sus- 
tained heavy losses by the ravages of war, and after its 
close, finding the labor system so demoralized and uncer- 
tain that he concluded to abandon the cultivation of his 
plantation, and finding a pui'chaser for it, he removed to 
New Orleans to reside permanently. In 1868, his name 
was prominently before the Democratic Convention of this 
city for Mayor, and was defeated in the Convention by 
only two votes by his successful opponent. Mayor Conway. 
Subsequently, his friends presented him as a candidate 
before the Legislature 'for the position of United States 
Senator, but it was withdrawn when it was ascertained 
that a sufficient Republican majority had been obtained to 
elect Hon. W. P. Kellogg. His large experience as a suc- 
cessful planter, and his thorough knowledge of the Levee 
system of the State, eminently qualified him for a position 
on the Board of Public Works, and in 1869, Gov. Warmoth 
appointed him to represent the Second Levee District, ex- 
tending from the Balize to the Atchafalaya river. Dui-ing 
his administration, and under his supervision, the largest 
levee in the State, known as the Grand Levee, was sub- 
stantially built, and through his energy and perseverance, 
other public levess were constructed and a large area of 
country saved from overflow. To these works he can point 
with pride and satisfaction to himself, feeling conscious 
that his official career has ever been without reproach and 
universally commended. For the last twenty years Mr. 
Van Wickle has been the lessee of Wood's Cotton Press, 
one of the largest institutions of the kind in the city, an 
illustration of which will be found on another page of this 
book. The press is the property of his sister, Mrs. Wood, 
and under his management hasaveraged, per annum, about 
seventy-five thousand bales of cotton compressed for ship- 
ment to New York and Europe. Besides being a real estate 
owner in this city, Mr. Van Wickle is now the proprietor 
of the old homestead at " Old Bridge," New Jersey, where 
he was born, and where for many years past he has spent 
his sum-mers in quiet retirement and in the peaceful con- 
templation of a long life of usefulness and exemplary 
character. 



Lafayette Square is decidedly the handsomest in the 
city. It is in the First District, and has St. Charles and 
Camp streets in front and rear, and several public buildings 
in its immediate neighborhood. It has a handsome and 
substantial iron railing around it, based upon well laid 
blocks of granite ; is well laid off in regular walks, and is 
ornamented with beautiful trees and a statue of Franldin, 
presented' to the city by Mr. Charles A. Weed, proprietor 
of the N. O. T!mcs. 



JEWELL'S CRESCENT CITY ILLUSTRATED. 



ALFRED PHILIPS, ESQ. 



The gentleman whose name heads these lines was bom 
in 1832. He was partly educated in this city and at St. 
Mary's College, in Baltimore, Md. 

He began the study of the law with Mr. Christian Rose- 
lius, and after attending three courses of lectures in the 
Law Department of the Univei'sity of Louisiana, gi'aduated 
from the same in 1853 ; but not being of age, he did not 
commence the practice of his profession until 1858. 

In 1S65 he was elected a professor in the Law Depart- 
ment of the University, to fill the chair made vacant by the 
death of the lamented Judge Theo. H. McCaleb. He con- 
tinued to act as professor down to 1870, when he resigned. 

Mr. Philips was a member of the House of Representa- 
tives of the State Legislatui-e in 1866 and 1867, which was 
distingiushed as an upright and very able body. 

He was, of coui'se, carried away by the patriotic ardor 
which filled the heart of every young man in the South 
during the late war for independence, and rendered valuable 
services to the Confederacy as a Captain in one of the 
Louisiana regiments. 

Mr. Philips is an unfortunate bachelor, but has been 
most happy in all his relations in life. He has been pecu- 
liarly fortimate in his profession, and his exertions have 
been rewarded by a fortune of respectable dimensions. 

In 1864 he became Mr. Roselius's partner, and has con- 
tuiued to practice law, associated with him, ever since. 

As a lawyer, Mr. Philips is one of the most accomplished 
in this city, being thoroughly learned in jurisprudence and 
literature. He is an elegant speaker, and his arguments 
reveal his vigorous and logical mind. 

Those who are well acquainted with him will bear wit- 
ness to the fact that it has ever been his aim since he was 
fu'st admitted to the bar to endeavor to cultivate friendly 
relations with his brother lawyers and to look accordingly 
with waiTQ approval upon all their exertions to elevate 
themselves in the ranks of the profession ; never to envy 
or detract, but always to encourage and applaud. He has 
always by liberality and frankness sought to encourage an 
esprit de corps among the members of the bar, never taking 
improper advantage of the weakness or want of prepara- 
tion of his adversary ,_ but on all occasions gTantiug and 
very rarely asking favors. 

He has never failed to recognize that the vocation of the 
lawyer is to as.sist, instruct and guide coiu'ts of justice in 
arriving at truth and administering right, and that he 
should never undertake to mislead a judge or jury ; that 
he is an ofiicer of justice and should faithfully exert all his 
talent and energies in aid of justice. 

The lawyer should be a gentleman ; that is, no man can 
be a lawyer, in the proper acceptation of the term, iinless 
he is a gentleman, which implies, necessarily, high integ- 
rity, unsullied honor, charity of heart and mind, sensibility 
and regard for all animated natiu-e, polished address and 
polite demeanor to all, as well as the possession and exer- 
cise of all those elevated mental faculties which stamp 
humanity as the master animal. All these qualities mark 



the gentleman and should be recognized in the lawyer, and 
his efforts should be directed to the cidtivation of all these 
graces and qualities. 

In personal appearance Mr. Philips is of the medium 
height, with brown hair and light blue eyes. He is very 
social and genial in his feelings, aspiring to no praise ex- 
cept that of being regarded as an honest, upright man, all 
of which he deserves, as he is remarkable for his candor 
and truthfulness. 



W. M. RANDOLPH, ESQ. 



No Lawyek in this or any State more fully commands 
the respect and confidence of the members of the bar, and 
the public, than Judge "VV. M. Randoljjh. He is a native 
of 'S^irginia, about fifty years old, and a near relative of 
the gi'eat defender of State Rights, John Randolph of 
Roanoke. 

A learned and u^jright man, no worldly consideration can 
turn him from the strict path of honor and duty. He is 
amiable, courteous, gentlemanly and chivalrous. 

Descended from a noble line, he commanded from his 
bu'th all that wealth and family influence .could give, with 
the best opportunities for education. 

In his youth he resided in one of the moiuitain districts 
of Viiguiia, and his constant application to the study of the 
law impaired seriously his health. His grandmother, who 
was devotedly attached to him, requested him to take a 
horse and travel, for exercise and recreation, in the neigh- 
borhood of the place where they resided. 

Randolph, who was an excellent rider, did as he was in- 
structed. A few miles from his residence there was a cir- 
cus with an excellent equestrian company. He joined them^ 
and after traveling with them seven days, retui'ned, home 
much improved in health. Upon being asked what he had 
done dui'ing his absence, he franldy stated the truth. His 
grandmother, who was an aristocratic lady and a strict 
Presbyterian, confessed that the young acrobat had done 
more than she had bai'gamed for. 

It has been said that to genius U'regularity is incident, 
and gi-eat men are often marked by eccentricity, as if they 
disdained to move in the vulgar orbit. Judge Randolph 
does not seem to jjay much attention to appearances. His 
flowing beard resembles that of a Capuchin friar, and his 
hair, uncommonly long, hangs down over his coat coUar, after 
the old cavalier fashion. 

He is tall and well-fonned, his featiu-es are regular and 
his eyes grey and brilliant. 

His familiarity with the principles of jtu-ispi-udonce is as 
ample as his application of them is masterly. He has great 
intensity and du'ectness of purpose and meets difficulties 
boldly. Accomplished as a scholar, he is unhesitathig in 
his conduct, although ijolite ui demeanor. His powers as 
an advocate are great. He is one of oui' best speakers. He 
has a refined classical wit and loves haiinless pleasantry. 

Unlike his great relative, John Randolph, of Roanoke, 
his siairit is cheerful and his temper mild. 






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JEWELL'S CRESCENT CITY ILLUSTRATED. 





The entrances to the Fair Grounds about three miles fi'om 
the Clay Statue are reached by the street cars which pass 
down Canal to Rampart, down Rampart to Esplanade, and 
down Esplanade towards and near Bayou St. John, being 
the pleasantest railroad ride afforded by the city cars, as 
well as a delightful drive for carriages. By the Gentilly 
gate, or the Mystery entrance, the visitor is inti'oduced to 
a park of 120 acres, (foi-merly the old Creole Race Course,) 
studded with magnificent oaks, thickly overgrown with 
gi-ass, containing a fine tract in complete order, and all the 
buildings required for fairs, fetes, and exhibitions of all 
kinds. The race eom'se is an ellipse exactly one mile in 
measurement, and from the natui-e and elevation of the 
ground is usually in good condition. Within the ellipse are 
the Club House of the Fair Grounds, a platform for music 
and dancing, and a base ball park. The Public Stand, built 
by the Jockey Club on the .south side of the course, is con- 
sidered the best stand on the continent, being an enormous 
three story pile of graceful and substantial carpentry, 
two stories high, with comfortable seats for more than five 
thousand people, with ample promenades, broad and easy 
staircases, roomy saloons, and commanding a view of the 
whole course and enclosure. The view from the ample and 
lofty cupola takes in the whole city and its subui'bs, a love'.^ 
mingling of rivers, bayous, lakes, swamps, forests, gardens, 
streets, shipping, spires, and I'ailroad trains. 

The main building is appropriated to the exhibition of 



fine and delicate manufactui-es, paintings, statuary draw- 
ings, musical insti-uments, machinery for household uses, 
needle work, furniture &e. It is of brick, 200x95 feet, two 
stories high, amply supplied with light and ventilation from 
large doors, lofty wuidows, and numerous skylights through 
its slate roof. The cost of the building was S"0,000. 

At each side of the main building at a distance of fifty 
yards, is a wooden building 206x80 feet, used for agricul- 
tural products, and implements, machines and mechanical 
inventions, often in full operation, and competing articles 
of produce or manufacture. The largest engines and 
machines are stored and exhibited under a shed near the 
principal buildings which covers an area of nearly nine 
hundred square yards. Extensive stables on the north side 
will accommodate more than a hundred horses, and on the 
same side adjoining the gi-ounds is the live-stock farm of 
Mr. Slocomb, containing many specimens of thorough-bred 
and imported animals. The deer park is on the east side 
and was improved by Mr. Slocomb at his own personal ex- 
pense. 

Six acres in the south east comer are appropriated to the 
Flower Gardens and Nurseries, under the charge of ]Mr. 
Joseph Muller, by whose care and judicious management, 
the garden has become a special attraction. This garden 
now affords to visitors an exhibition of vigorous tropical 
shrubs, flowers, plants and trees not to be found elsewhere 
north of the Gulf of Mexico. The walks are shelled and 



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the grounds symetrically laid out The number of speci- 
mens is increasing and the whole garden is imdergoing 
constant improvement. 

Attached to the garden and fui-nished from it is the 
Floral Hall, a walled circular arena, 60 feet in diameter, 
sheltered by canvass and cooled by numerous fountains. 
Here during the regular public exhiljltions are .•^een banks 
and pyramids of the rarest and most beautiful flowers 
and vines that grow in the garden, field or forest. 

The Fair Grounds reflect credit upon the Association, for 
their enterprize, zeal and public spirit. They are seconded 
in tlieir laudable and industrious efforts by a generous 
public. Such co'iperation will accelerate the attainment of 
the great objects which all should have in view, the main- 
tenance of the dignity of labor, the vindication of the 
worth of brains, and the jjraetical promotion of the pros- 
perity of our State. 

MECHANIC'S AND AGRICULTURAL FAIR ASSO- 
CIATION. 



This body was incorporated in A^jril 1S(JU, '• to promote 
and foster improvements in all the various depai-tments of 
agriculture" and for " the prcmiotion and development of 
the mechanical arts and home manufactures in all branches; 
the rearing, development, and improvement of the I'aees of 
useful animals ; the general advancement of riu-al economy ; 
the eneoui-agement of household manufaetiu'es and the dis- 
semination of useful knowledge upon ssuch subjects by of- 
fering inducements and pi'emiums therefor." 

The first officers of the Assoeiatiou were : G. W. Race, 
Esq., President ; Messrs. C. H. Slocomb, P. A. Rost, and 
H. R. Swasey, Vice-Presidents; T. D. Harper, Secretary 
and Treasurer ; and I. G. Seymour, C. Patthoff, J. 0. 
Nixon, Luther Homes, Charles Pride, L. Folger. T. N. 
Blake, G. W. Sizer, L. W. Pilie, David H. Fowler, .lohn 
Pemberton, .1. W. Tilton, Isaac N. Marks, Thomas O. 
Moore, E. E. Kittridgc, .7. II. Overton and J. Hardesty, 
Directors. 

The first fair was held on tin- New Fair (tti muds in the Fall 
of 1866, the second in January 1808, the third and iouvth 
early in 1869 and 1870. The buildings of the Association 
were burnt in the Spring of 1871 and the Fair, necessarily 
postjooned, was held in the Fall of that year. The Fair of 
April 1872 was eminently .successful, giving renewed prom- 
ise of a brilliant future. Besides diplomas and other re- 
wards, premivmis to the value of more than twenty thou- 
sand dollars were distributed. 

The Association is to continue twenty five-yeai-s. There 
is no room to doubt that its success and marked iniiuence 
will secure a i-enewal of its term. 

Its officers for 1872, (chosen May 1st) were I. N. Marks, 
President ; C. H. Slocomb, N. E. Bailey, and James Jack- 
son, Vice-Presidents ; Luther Homes, Secretary and 
Ti-easui-er ; and Williamson Smith, L. Folger, J. A. Blaffer 
G. W. Dunbar, A. W. Merriam, Joseph L. Harris, C. A. 
Miltenberger, John Geddes, G. A. Breaux, A. Fortier, E. 
A. Tyler, G. G. Garner, W. B. Schmidt, E. M. Rusha and 
Frederick Wing, Directors. 



CRESCENT CITY SUGAR REFINERY, 



Ox Tehouintoulas .street, between Jidia and St. Joseph 
streets, occupying about half a s(iuare, is the enormous 
eight story brick building, which, with several subsidiary 
brick structures adjoining, constitute the Creseent City 
Steam Sugar Refinery, the most substantial, best managed 
and perhai)s the largest manufactory of refined sugars in 
the world. Steam power is ingeniously applied wherever 
manual labor can be saved, so that with no more than one 
hundred laborers, results ai-e accomi^lished, which, with 
less ingenuity, might require five times as many. The 
crude sugar as it comes from the plantation is hoisted by 
steam to the eighth story, and the molasses is pumped by 
steam from a tank or resevoir in the basement. Fi'om the 
top the sugar passes downward thi-ough the "blow ups," the 
bag filters, coolers, vacuum kettle, mixer, drainers, cutters 
and mill, by a succession of automatic pi'ocesses, some of 
which are the invention of Adam Thompson, Esq., the en- 
terprising sole proprietor, whose earnest study has long- 
been to improve upon every mechanical contrivariCe by 
which time and labor can be saved. His establishment has 
thereby become the model refinerv and the sjjecial admira- 
ation of all practical engineeis. 

No chemicals are used here in the process of refining, 
the sugar being whitened and purified entirely by filtration 
through charcoal. (Jf these charcoal filters Mv. Thompson 
has twenty-eight in operation, and intends soon to add 
twenty-three more. They are cylinders sixteen feet high, 
and four feet in diameter, compactly filled with bone black 
through which the liquid filters in about thirty-six hours. 
The charcoal, after having been used for several charges of 
liquid, is washed and revivified by burning in a furnace, 
which renews its i^virifying properties as often as may be 
requu-ed. Fifty tons of charcoal ai'e in constant use. 
When in full opieration fom- hiuidred and fifty barrels of 
sugai' or five hundred barrels of molasses are used, the 
most of which is imported from Cuba. 

The Louisiana molasses cannot be I'efined by charcoal 
filtration, as it contains sulphur, which prevents the 
whitening action of the bone black. Mr. Thompson has 
therefore provided eight centrifugal mills throngh which 
it is passed for refining and deoderizing. 

Water is supplied by eight "drove wells," one of which is 
140 feet deej). P'rom these are filled very large tanks and 
cisterns in all pai'ts of the establishment, extending to the 
eighth story and roofs. Pipes descend from these in all di- 
rections, so that in case of fire, the whole can be flooded in 
a few seconds. An exten.sive cooperage supplies the man- 
ufa^etory with barrels, &c., for refined sugars .-ind syrups, 
besides making large nitmbei's for the outside market. 

The products of this establishment have become noted 
in American and toreign markets an ■ the demand for them 
has so increased as to make an enlargement necessary. 
For his enterprize, enei-gy and talents, the liberal and pub- 
lic-spirited proprietor merits the gratitude of all oui' cit- 
izens, and he is held in especial esteem by all who seek thi> 
development of Southci-n lesoiu'ces. 



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GEO. A. FOSDICK, 
EDWARD RIGNEY, 
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A. THOMSON, D. B. PENN, WM. CREEVY, 

SAM'L M. TODD, E. B. BRIGGS J. W. STONE, 

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C. E. GIR.U?DET, 
JOSEPH ELLISON, 
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DR. B. H. MOSS, 



DR. HENRY SMITH, 



DR. SAM CHOPPIN. 



DR. J. H. LEWIS, 



DR. J. DICKSON BRUNS. 



JEWELL'S CRESCENT CITY ILLUSTRATED. 



THOMAS J. SEMMES, ESQ. 



Hon. Thomas J. Se.mmes \va.s boin at Georgetown, D. 
C, in 1824. He springs from one of the oldest families in 
Maryland, his ancestors having emigrated to that State 
with Lord Baltimore. 

He graduated with the highest honors at Georgetown 
College in 184'2. He read law in the office of Clement 
Coxe, of that city, and entered the law school of Harvard 
University, where Judge Story and Simon Greenleaf were 
professoi-s. He gi'aduated in 184.5, and was admitted to 
the bar of Washington the same year. 

In 1850, he removed to New Orleans. Five years after 
he was appointed a member of the Democratic State Central 
Committee of the State Convention. During the guberna- 
torial canvas of '55 he had a contioversy with a committee 
of the American pai-ty as to the right of naturalized citi- 
zens to vote. He distinguished himself at that time for 
his strong intellect and fii'mness of character. 

In the same year he was elected a member of the Legis- 
lature, and in this body he became Chairman of the 
Judiciary Committee. 

In July, 1857, he was appointed U. S. District Attorney, 
and in November, 1859, elected Attorney General of 
Louisiana. 

In 18(52, he was elected Confederate States Senator, and 
in this body he was made a membei' of the Judiciary and 
Finance Committee. He prepared the tax bill in conjunc- 
tion Hon. R. M. T. Hiinter, of Vii'ginia, and wrote the 
report on retaliation and the resolutions from the Judiciary 
Committee on martial law. 

His palatial residence on Annunciation street, in this 
city, was, after the capture of New Orleans, confiscated, 
together with its fine furniture, paintings, mirrors, carpets, 
etc., which amounted to a considei'able sum of money. 
His law library was stolen by soldiers under Gen. Butler, 
and at the end of the war, when he returned home and 
resumed the practice of his pi-ofession, he was quite poor. 

Since that time Mr. Semmes, by close application to busi- 
ness, has been accumulating property, and he is now on 
the road to fortune. It is generally believed that he and 
his pai'tner, Mr. Robert Mott, have an excellent practice 
in the city. 

In person, Mr. Semmes is of the middle size ; he has 
eyes of the color of the waters of the sea, that grow with 
promethean fire, regular features, and moustache and 
goatee, in which assiduous labor and long nights of study 
have interspersed not a few silver threads. His bald head 
is a capital one — unrivaled ; still, he scorns to wear a wig. 

His exterior is apparently cold, probably from the fact 
that he is not demonstrative. Yet he is a true and reliable 
friend. His countenance is serious, but when excited in 
speech it grows articulate with the emotions that thrill his 
soul. His voice is musical and fits evei'y intonation and 
cadence. 

His penetrative intellect possesses a perspicuity, as quick 
as it is vivid, and his conclusions do not wait iipon labored 
induction. He darts at once upon the core of the subject, 
and starts where most reasoners end. 



He is familiar with the Latin and Greek classes. Taci- 
tus is his favoi'ite author. 

Disciplined by such an education his taste is always 
correct. 

In the subtle game of law he is adroit as a practiced gen- 
eral in the field. When he gets into his subject and is 
warmed with it, he utters words of fire that carry the 
listener captive along with him. If his argument is close 
to the point, it is at the same time full of expositions of 
the adversary's inconsistency. Mr. Semmes Ls renowned 
for his ability to sway courts by a logic, almost irresistible, 
and juries by a fascinating eloquence. He is, no doubt, a 
man of positive character, of pure i-eputation, and of un- 
tu'ing energies. He is called by some of our lawyers, 
" The incarnation of logic." At home he is quite amiable 
and his spirit buoyant and even playful. 



JUDGE THOMAS W^HARTON COLLENS. 



Hex. Thos. Whauto.v Collens, who pi-esides over the 
Seventh District Court for the Parish of Orleans, is a gen- 
tleman of unimpeachable integi-ity and a Judge of gi-eat 
capacity and learning. 

He was born in Covington, La., and is fifty-nine years 
old. He was educated in this city, and has been thirty- 
nine years at the bar, discharging, at different periods, the 
offices of District Attorney and Judge of the Criminal 
Court with great ability. He is acquainted with the 
ancient and modern languages, and has written several 
pbilosophical works, which have been highly praised by the 
best critics. 

In order that the reader may see Judge Wharton 
Collens in the mind's eye, a brief outline of his outer 
man is necessary. 

In person he is slight and of the middle size. His face 
is pale, but often kindles up -with the light and brilliancy 
of his dark eye. He has regular features, and iron-gray 
hair and beard. With fibres and nerves delicately toned, 
and not enjoying good health, his nervous system is some 
times irritable. 

Judge Wharton Collens has a metaphysical turn of mind. 
Like all men of such bent, he is a stickler for technicali- 
ties. If he were a soldier he would be a martinet. 

His style is that of the severest reasoning. The language 
is choice, perfectly clear, and admirably suited to the 
matters which the words clothe. 

His decisions are based upon clear and rational grounds, 
evincing learning and showing a legal structure of under- 
standing, felicitous statement and profound knowledge. 

Over the Seventh District Court he has presided for 
several years, and his administration of its functions has 
.shed a lustre alike upon that tribunal and the Judge. 

It may be said, without fear of contradiction, that a long 
time will elapse before there shall aiise in this State such 
another legal luminary, to adorn the bench, as the wor- 
thy gentleman I have briefly portrayed. 



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FRANCIS H. HATCH. 



Tiiii .siiViject of this skftcli, although he has lived in 
Louisiana for nearly forty years, is a native of New Eng- 
land, his ancestors being among the early settlers of that 
colony, and having taken pai't in the Revohitionary strug- 
gle inaugurated by Adams, Franklin, and Washington. 
Mr. Hatch was born in 1815, and came to New Orleans 
when a mere youth, commencing life as a clerk in the then 
prominent wholesale grocery house of McLeod & Camp- 
bell, in which position he gave so much satisfaction to his 
employers that, before he was of age, he became a partner 
of the firm on the withdrawal of McLeod from business. 
The failing health of the remaining partner, Mr. Campbell, 
threw the entire management of the business into the 
hands of Mr. Hatch, and thus, at the early age of twenty- 
one, he found himself in a position of great responsibility, 
in which he proved himself equal to the occasion, and 
became well jjrepared for tlie vastly more arduous and 
i-esponsible public offices he was to be called upon to 
occupy. Li ] 848, the failing health of his wife induced 
him to retire from business and to settle into the Parish of 
St. Helena, where he soon entered into the arena of politics, 
being first elected to represent that piney-wood region to 
the Constitutional Convention of 1852, a body which 
achieved the very unusual feat of preparing, discussing 
and adopting a Constitution for the State in the short 
.space of twenty-five days. From 1854 to 1857 Mr. Hatch 
represented his parish in the Legislature, and in 1857, he 
received from President Buchanan the appointment of 
Collector of the Port of New Orleans, an office which he 
filled to the entire satisfaction of the mercantile commu- 
nity, and with much honor to himself, as well as credit to 
the general government. Mr. Hatch's long identification 
with Louisiana led him to embark warmly in the cause of 
Secession, which he served with devoted fidelity throughout 
the late struggle, to the great detriment of his private 



interests. Returning from the war impoverished, but not 
disheartened, Mr. Hatch again reverted to his old business 
pursuits, and is now the President of the New Orleans 
Branch of the Mound City Life Lisuranee Company, one 
of the best known and most flourishing institutions of that 
kind in the South. Mr. Hatch is one of the best speci- 
mens of the hardy New England stock grafted upon the 
Southern stock. For his energy and industry, combined 
with gi-eat prudence, a clear head, and a high sense of 
honor, he owes the enviable distinction of having passed 
through the most trying vicissitudes, commercial and 
political, without ever failing to meet all his obligations, 
both private and public, and to retain to the fullest extent 
the esteem and confidence of the population among which 
he has spent the last forty years of a useful life. 



SAMUEL H. KENNEDY, ESQ. 



This gentleman was born in Massachusetts, in the year 
1816, and brought up as a farmer's boy in a family of 
eight children. His education was confined to those ad- 
vantages which --most farmers' sons were compelled to ac- 
cept, who were obliged to till the sterile soil of New 
England — that is, to go to school in the winter months and 
work on the farm during the summer. His ambition as a 
youth was to go to Harvard College, at Cambridge, where 
his oldest brother gi'aduated in 1826, and his position in 
all his classes, while at the town school and at the acade- 
my, induced his' father to promise to send him to that in- 
stitution. But the death first of his mother and then of 
his father, while he was yet a boy, prevented the execution 
of that plan, which was a favorite one with him, and he 
was taken from his classes at the early age of sixteen, 
forthwith launched into the world and fitted for American 
life in the rigid but not profitable school of experience. 

He soon obtained a situation in a wholesale grocery 
store in Boston, where he remained till 1835, when influ- 
enced by the atti'actions of the Western country, which 
exerted a wondrous spell upon many young men of that 
region, he turned his steps thitherward. In December of 
that year he ai'rived at Alton, 111., with only a tilfle in his 
pocket, but after looking around him foimd a situation at 
fifty dollars a month as book-keeper in a di'y goods store. 
After two years service he embarked in the wholesale gro- 
cery business, in which he remained till impaii'ed health 
compelled him to seek a warmer latitude, in order to avoid 
a threatened pulmonary disease. 

In 1843 he commenced business in New Orleans, under 
the fii'ui of Kennedy & Foster, as Western conunission and 
produce merchants. The death of Mr. Foster, in 1850, 
caused a change of the fii'm to S. H. Kennedy & Co., 
which name has remained unchanged up to the present 
time, and he is the only mei'chant now living in New Or- 
leans, who has continued twenty-nine successive years in 
the Western business. 

Mr. Kennedy has always been devoted to his profession, 
and by economy and close application has been rewarded 
with success. His rule has been — and he has found it a 
good one — to confine expenses in his own private afTairs 
to a sum within his income. 



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Mr. Kennedy has been one of the most active members 
of the Chamber of Commerce of New Orleans, and for sev- 
eral years was elected its President. 

He was for many years before the war a Director in the 
Louisiana State Bank, when that institution was the lead- 
ing bank in the city. It had a capital of S'2,000,000, and a 
deposit of over §5,000,000. Its stock was $190 in gold. 
The disaster of the war caused the bank to lose over 
$3,000,000. But under able management it paid all its 
liabilities. The result, however, was a condition so crip- 
pled that it was in 1870 about to go into liquidation when, 
at the request of a large' number of stockholders, Mr. 
Kennedy was induced to take charge of the institution 
and resuscitate it. This has been done under his skillful 
administration of its affairs, and it is now, under the Na- 
tional Bank system, one of the leading banks of the city. 

Mr. Kennedy is now in the prime of life and full of 
business energy. He is distinguished for public spirit, 
and takes a lively interest in all mattei's connected with 
the progress and welfare of the community. 

On the corner of First and Camp streets, in the Fourth 
District, can be seen one of the most elegant houses in 
this city, sui'rounded with lovely grounds, laid out in the 
English lawn style, with a large variety of trees and 
shrubbery. Hei'e Mr. Kennedy has resided for twenty 
yeai's, surrounding himself and his family with those com- 
forts and elegancies (the result of a well-earned prosperi- 
ty) which a refined and cultivated taste can so well 
appreciate. 

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THOMAS ALLEN CLARKE, ESQ. 



This respected and successful lawyer was born at 
Albany, in the State of New York, in 1814. His father 
was in the United States army, and at the close of the 
second war with Great Britain he moved to Utica. His 
grandfather was Lieut. Allen, who, not suspecting the trea- 
son of Arnold, announced to him the capture of Andre. 

The youth of Mr. Clarke was spent at Utica. One of the 
oldest boys at school with him was Gov. Horatio Seymour. 
Among his companions were Professor Dana, of Yale Col- 
lego, the most distinguished living geologist in the United 
States ; Dr. S. Wells Williams, the eminent Orientalist ; the 
late Gen. Mori'is S. Miller, of the United States araiy; 
Capt. Lathrop, of the Texas na\y, prepared for College at 
Utica and Canandaigua. 

Mr. Clarke graduated at Hamilton College in 1834. He 
studied law at Utica, with Judges Kirkland and Bacon. 

He came to New Orleans in 1835, and (like Benjamin and 
other eminent lawyers, whose modesty makes them diffident 
and distrustful as to their immediate success), engaged Ln 
mercantile pursuits. He resumed the study of the law 
with Judge Slidell, at the same time that he was paying 
teller in the Canal Bank of this city. 

In 1842 he was admitted to the bar, and since that time 
he has been one of our prominent lawyers. 

Mr. Clarke is a gentleman of fine personal appearance, 
with fair complexion, blue eyes and light hair. He has a 
striking air and dignified bearing, and is admired both for 
his talents and sterling integrity. 




CHARLES T. HOWARD. 



Among the many instances of men in this city who have, 
by their own exertions, industry and strict attention to 
their business, elevated themselves from comparative ob- 
scurity to positions of influence, wealth and character in 
the community, there is a no more striking instance of 
this fact than that represented by the subject of this 
sketch. 

Mr. Howard was born in Baltimore in 1832. It was not 
his good fortune to enjoy the benefits of a thorough edu- 
cation but such as cu'cumstances permitted, he readily 
availed himself of every opportunity. At an eai'ly age he 
left school in Philadelphia, after having qualified himself 
for the ordinary avocations of life. He then engaged in 
commercial pursuits in that city until 1852, when he came 
to New Orleans. 

His first business connection here was with the steam- 
boat interests of the South and West, with which he was 
identified until 1854. At this time having demonstrated 
business qualities of a high degree by an assiduous atten- 
tion to his duties, he was recommended for and received 
the appointment of agent in this city for the Alabama 
State Lottery Company. His management of the affairs of 
this company, which was highly successful and satisfactory, 
was terminated by the breaking out of the war, in which 
Mr. Howard was one of the first to enlist under the banner 
of the Confederate States. 

He first served in the navy and afterward joined the 
Crescent Regiment, then under command of Col. Marshal 
J. Smith. In this regiment he was made Orderly Sergeant 
of Co. G, and served in that capacity until he was dis- 
charged on account of sickness. He afterward entered 
the cavalry service, where he remained on active duty 
around Mobile until the termination of the war. 

Upon returning to this city in 1865, Mr. Howard, like 
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great struggle for State Rights, fomid himself again upon 
i the threshold of life. Nothing daunted, however, by the 
reverses of fortune or the loss of time, he again resumed 
work with the determination to recover all that had been 
lost. About this time the agency of the Kentucky State 
Lottery was tendered to and accepted by him. This posi- 
tion he filled with remarkable success until 1868. 

Mr. Howard's connection with the Alabama and Ken- 
tucky State Lotteries familiarized him thoroughly with the 
operations of those companies and demonstrated the im- 
mense profits accruing to these States under the patronage 
of which these institutions were conducted. Mr. Howard 
conceived the idea that Louisiana, too, might be made the 
beneficiary of a similar corporation and the thousands of 
dollars annually paid as a tribute to the lottery companies 
of Alabama, Georgia, Kentucky and Havana might be 
poured into the coffers of his own State. With this object 
in view he seciu-ed the co-operation of a number of capi- 
talists and citizens and obtained a charter from the State 
Legislatui-e in 1868, for the incorporation of the Louisiana 
State Lottery Company. Of this company Mr. Howard 
was elected President, a position he has filled from 1868 to 
the present time with marked ability and efficiency. The 
Louisiana Lottery Company, under his control, has become 
one of the most substantial and lucrative institutions of 
the city, the dividends on its stock exceeding those of any 
of the Vianks. 

Besiiles the business tact of Mr. Howard, which has 
made him so successful in life, he is a liberal-minded, gener- 
ous and public-spirited citizen. 

His name will be found connected with many of those 
public institutions which contribute so largely to the at- 
traction of the city and which, but for the patronage, en- 
ergy and liberality of a few such active and live men as 
Mr. Howard, would languish and finally pass away. To 
him is due in a great degree the establishment of the finest 
race course and Jockey Club House in the United States, 
and the success of the " Crescent City Yacht Club" is in 
like manner attributable to his lively interest in its wel- 
fare. Of the La-.Toekey Club Mr. Howard is the Vice- 
President, and is also Vice-Commander of the " Crescent 
City Yacht Club," and is the owner of the famous yachts 
"Protos" and " Xiphias," whose fame as fast-sailing crafts 
is national as well as local. 

To all subscriptions for worlis of public improvement, 
charitable purposes and all schemes for the welfare of the 
city, Mr. Howard is alwajs a liberal contributor. 

The institution of which he is President pays a tribute 
annually of 840,000 to the Public School Fund of the State, 
whilst personally the generous nature of Mr. Howard is 
evidenced by his many acts of kindness and charity unos- 
tentatiously bestowed and hence unknown to any but the 
gi-ateful recipients. 

Mr. Howard is an exempt member of the Fire Depart- 
ment. For a numbei' of years he was Treasurer of the 
La-Hose Company, and as a testimonial of the high appre- 
ciation in which he was held by the members, their elegant 
steamer is called the " Annie Howard." in honor of the 
chamiing little daughter of Mr. Howard. 



In 1854, Mr. Howard was married to Miss Floristelle 
Boiilemet, a member of one of the oldest and most re- 
spected Creole families of New Orleans, and is now the 
father of four children. His residence (an engraving of 
which is on another page of this book) is pleasantly situated 
in the most delightful portion of the city, and is sur- 
rounded by all the elegance, luxury and comfort wealth 
can afford. And heie Mr. Howard enjoys life and the 
fruits of his labor without ostentation, but with liberality 
in dispensing the hospitalities of his elegant home. 



THOMAS L. BAYNE, ESQ. 



Thomas Livingston Batnk, a distinguished lawyer of 
this city, was bom in Jones county, Ga., but moved at an 
early age to Butler county, Ala., and resided there imtil 
his education was completed. He is about 45 years of age. 
I am told by one of his intimate friends that Mr. Bayne en- 
tered Yale College in 1848, and gi'aduated with distinction 
in 1847. 

He came to New Orleans in 1848, and studied law with 
liLs friend, 'Mv. Thomas AUen Clarke. 

He was admitted to the bar in 1850. Three years after- 
wards he entered into a partnership with Mr. Clarke, which 
continues to the present time. 

When our late war for the independence of the Sottthern 
States broke out, Mr. Bayne entered the 5th Company of 
the Washington Artillery as a private. He was one of the 
foremost in the battle of Shiloh, where he was shot through 
the right arm whilst serving one of the guns of his com- 
pany. He recovered in a few weeks, and subseqtiently 
was appointed captain of artillery for gallant conduct in 
the field. Soon after he was promoted the rank of Lieuten- 
ant Colonel. 

At the close of the war, Mr. Bayne returned to New Or- 
leans and resumed the practice of the law with his foi-mer 
partner, Mr. Thos. Allen Clarke. 

A few years before the war, he married in Selma, Ala- 
bama, the fair and accomplished daughter of Hon. John 
Gayle, ex-Governor of that State, ex-member of Congress 
of the Mobile District, and ex-Judge of the United States 
First District Court. 

!Mr. Baj-ne is a gentleman not only highly esteemed in 
this State for his honesty and profound knowledge of the 
law, but for his amiability and courtesy towards Ms fellow 
members of the bar. This gentleman, together with his 
partners, ]\Ir. Clarke and Mr. Ren haw, has an excellent 
and deserved practice in this city. 

Mr. Bayne is of the middle size, of slight fi-ame, and with 
fail' complexion. 



WAsniNRTON Square is in the Third District ; is 
bounded by the Elysian Fields, Great Men's, Casa Calvo 
and Fi-enehmen streets. Though admirably situated, 
owing to the distance it stands from the denser portion of 
the city, it ha-s not yet received those attentions which, at 
some future day, will render it a beautiful promenade. 



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CAPTAIN ^Y. I. IIODHSON. 



Wasiungtox Iitvixc; Hodgsox was born in Louisville, 
Kentucky, on the 'i7th day of November, 1833, and after 
receiving a very limited education in that State, and at the 
" Eaton Seminary " in Murfresboro, Tenn., removed to the 
City of New Orleans, during the Fall of 1847, (then only 
about fourteen years of age), and began his business career 
as an under clerk in the well remembered hardware estab- 
lishment of J. Waterman & Co., corner of Common and 
Magazine Sts., remaining there some years ; he changed 
to the house of Samuel Locke, as entry clerk, in the same 
line of business, and afterwards as bookkeeper and cashier 
with Messrs. Alex. Norton & Macaulay, grocers, and C. C. 
Bier & Co., stove dealers. We find him in 1858, and up to 
the breaking out of the war in 1861, occupying the .-^ame 
position with Col. .Tas. B. AValton, the well known auction- 
eer, and after many yeai's service with that distinguished 
gentleman, in March, 1869, we find him associated with 
Mr. Charles T. Nash, as the junior partner in the firm of 
Nash & Hodgson, Auctioneers and Real Estate Agents. 

Mr. Hodgson is the youngest son of Captain Heni'y 
Hodgson, favorably known from 1815 to 1834, as the com- 
mander of some of the lai'gest and finest ships then plying 
the Atlantic, between New Orleans and the ports of 
Europe, and it was on one of these, the " Parker & Sons," 
under his command, that some of our most worthy, enter- 
prising and public-spirited citizens of foreign bii'th made 
their first tiip to this country. Among whom may be 
mentioned Robert Stark, .John Watt, John D. Bein, Dr. 
Richard Bein, William and Samuel Bell, and hosts of 
others, the most of whom, with their old friend, now fill 
honored graves. Captain Hodgson dying in England at an 
advanced age, during the recent war. 

Mr. Hodgson's mothei', Jane Josephine Howard, was 
born in Dublin, Ireland, of American parents, and was re- 



turned to Dublin and educated, and on her final return to 
America, was married at an early age, while a guest at the 
hospitable residence of a Louisville gentleman. She was 
very popular in Washington and Philadelphia society, 
along fi'om 1825 to 1830, and was noted far and wide for 
her beaiity and accomplishments, speaking fluently five or 
more languages, and numbered among her particular 
friends the families of Washington Irving, Henry Clay, 
Daniel Webster and others. 

This esteemed lady died suddenly of cholera in this city 
in 1853, deeply mourned and regretted by a large circle of 
friends. 

Mr. Hodgson is a direct desccndent, on his maternal 
side, from some of England's great personages, and is a 
gi-eat great gi-and nephew of Robert Elliott, who so suc- 
cessfully commanded the defences of the " Gibralta," dur- 
ing a seven years seige, by all the combined forces of 
Europe, and for which His Royal Master knighted him 
" Lord Elliot Heathfield." 

His maternal grandfather was an officer in the U. S. 
Army during the English war of 1812, and while gallantly 
leading his troops at the battle of Bladonsburg, in the de- 
fense of Washington City, received wounds from which he 
suffered for many years, and which finally I'esulted ii his 
death. 

The subject of our sketch, imbibing somewhat the spirit 
of excitement and adventure, as it were, of his ancestors, 
joined the renowned corps, the Battalion Washington Ar- 
tillery, (then a single company) as far back as the Brd of 
April, 1851, and during a series of years, passing through 
the various grades from private onward. He entered the 
Confederate .service in March, 1862, as captain of the Fifth 
Company of that famous corps, which office he subse- 
quently resigned, to accept service with his good friend, 
the late Henry W. Allen, then Governor of Louisiana, as 
the commander of the State Artillery (doing outpost duty 
with the Confedei-ate troops and under Confederate au- 
thoi-ity), and rendered eminent and conspicuous services 
to the state and government throughout the entire war, 
remaining in the service until after the last gun was fired, 
receiving his parole from the U. S. forces, on the surrender 
of Gen. E. Kirby Smith's army, in the Trans-Mississippi 
Department, in June, 1865. 

Tlii'ough his checkered and varied life, either as clerk, 
merchant, soldier, citizen or friend. Captain Hodgson has 
ever proven himself honorable, just and charitable to his 
fellow man, with a gay and happy disposition and cheerful 
pleasant manner with all, he has, through his indomitable 
energy, capacity and .sterling entegrity (in connection with 
his partner), built up a large and prosperous business, 
second to none in their line, and they enjoy the esteem 
and confidence of the entire community. 



A PKCULIARITY in our city railroads is that there are no 
conductoi's. Passengers on entering the cars walk up to 
the fai-e-box, and deposit five cents — this being the price 
for a I'ide to any portion of the city. The amount saved 
by the Companies, by salaries for conductors and their per- 
quisites add largely to the increase of dividends on the stock. 



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HENRY ABRAHAM, ESQ. 



This gentleman, of Israelitisli extraction, was born in 
Germany in 1836. Having finished his academic course at 
home, he, at an early age, emigrated to the United States, 
and the first place where he fixed his resilience was the 
beautiful city of Montgomery, Alabama, where, in li^51, he 
entered into trade with his brother, who had also left his 
fatherland for the New World, and where he I'emained ten 
years advantageously and prosperously occupied. 

In 1862, he removed to New Orleans, the great mart of 
Southern and South-western commerce. Here he first en- 
tered into the wholesale business on a large scale, with F. 
Goldsmith, Esq., under the fiim name of Abraham & Gold- 
smith, which continued until 1866, when he formed a 
co-partnership with other parties in the cotton commission 
business, imder the firm name of Lehman, Newgass & Co., 
New Orleans. He subsequently became partner in the 
firms of Lehman Brothers, New York, un ler the name of 
Lehman, Newgass & Co. ; also of Lehman, Durr & Co., 
Montgomery, Ala., and of B. Newgass & Co., Liverpool, 
England. 

Tlie business of this firm has been pi'osjjei'ous from the 
start, owing to the mercantile skill, high integrity and 
general intelligence of the principal at the head of it, and 
of the gentlemen associated with him in the management 
of its affairs. It has experienced no reverses, and has 
rapidly risen to occupy the rank of one of om- first com- 
mercial houses. It has also extended its branches to other 
commercial centres. 

Mr. Abraham has settled the question, which has pro- 
voked skepticism at the North, and been regarded doubt- 
ful at the South, of the perfect feasibility of establishing 
cotton manufactures successfully in this section of the 
country. Indeed with the staple, machinery, water j)Ower 
and steam power necessary for manufacturing purposes, at 
our own door, it is sui'pi-ising that our large capitalists and 
enterprising citizens have not embai-ked in this profitable 
entei'prise at an earlier peiiod. His Lane Cotton Mills, 
beautiful and commodious structures, situated on Tchoup- 
itoulas Street, near Napoleon Avenue, in which yarns, 
ropes, osnaburgs, sheetings, shirtings and blankets, of the 
finest texture, are manufactured, equal to any produced in 
Europe or Ameiica, and for which the demand is large, 
and being continually extended, have introduced an era in 
this great industi-ial interest, for which not only New 
Orleans, but the whole Southern country is greatly indebted 
to this public-spirited citizen. We have regarded these 
mills as furnishing so mai'ked a feature in the history of 
the times and of the renaissance of this metropolis, that we 
have had an accurate engi-aving of them made for this 
work. In prosecuting the noble enterprise (a novelty in 
our midst) with a species of enthusiasm that has been 
attended with the most encom-aging results, the subject of 
this notice has had a special eye to the condition of a large 
class of persons among us who have been reduced to 
poverty and destitution by the late unhappy war. With a 
humanity that does honor to him, and to the peisecuted 
and distinguished race from which he has descended, he 



has sought out, in the thoroughfares of the city, this class 
of persons, by the hundred, and given them a home and 
occupation. Not only men, but indigent boys and girls, 
clamoring for bi'ead but willing to work, have been em- 
ployed by him and rewarded for their labor. The number 
of operatives daily employed in and about the factory, in 
various tasks, ranges at from sixty-five to seventy. It 
foi-ms the nucleus around which similar institutions will, in 
process of time, spring up, by means of which, as the 
example spreads, far and wide, from city to city, and from 
town to country, the South will, at length, become as well 
kno^vn and as noteworthy, for its manufactures, as it now 
is for its agriculture and its commerce. 

In addition to the cotton mills, Mr. Abraham, under the 
firm of Smith & Goldsmith, started the Commercial Cotton 
Press, which, with the buildings attached to it, occupies 
four blocks on Tchoupitoulas street, where cotton is re- 
ceived in large quantities, stored, handled, pressed, pre- 
pared for market, and shipped on its destination. This is 
a great advantage to our planters and to purchasers and 
shippers of cotton. The Press itself is the most complete 
piece of workmanship of the kind ever imported into this 
city, and furnishes occuijation, in vaiious ways, for a 
large number of operatives. 

Mr. Abraham is a Director in the Germania National 
Bank, and also a Director in three of our Insurance Com- 
panies, viz : the Crescent Mutual, the Hope, and the Teu- 
tonia. When not at his office, where he is generally to be 
found " from early morn to dewy eve," he is usually to be 
met with at the Bank, or some of the Insurance offices, or 
on " 'Change, where merchants " mo.st do congregate," re- 
ceiving or imparting information as to the rise or fall of 
stocks, and the condition of the market at home and 
abroad. To politics, such as it has been for the last ten 
years in this community, he has an extreme aversion and 
never meddles with it. 

This prosperous merchant takes a deep interest in the 
progress and completion of the new Jewish Temple " Sinai," 
on Carondelet street, now nearly finished, and has been a 
liberal contributor to it, as well as an ardent supporter of 
the cause of the Reformed Israelites, for whose sj^ecial 
benefit that elegant structure was oi'iginally designed. 
One of the features which distinguishes their worship from 
that of the old time Israelites is, that, in accommodation to 
the spirit of the age, and the requirements of modeni civi- 
lization, their service, in part at least, is conducted in the 
English language. 



^Y-VSHIxr)T0N Square. — This fronts on Elysian Fields 
street and the line of the Pontchartrain and the New Or- 
leans, Mobile and Texas Railways. The square is other- 
wise bounded by Frenchmen, Dauphine and Casaealvo 
streets. From the liver side it is overlooked by the Third 
Presbyterian Church, a fine brick building, whose front and 
steeple are now green with clambering vines. The square 
is enclosed with an iron fence, is copiously shaded upon the 
borders and is open for parades in the centre. It is the 
favorite resort for the children of the vicinage. 



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JAMES W. ZACHARIE. 



The subject of this sketch was one of the oldest and 
most respected merchants of this city. He was a native of 
the city of Baltimore and at the time of his death was in 
the seventy-fourth year of his age. He ariived in this 
city on the 1st of January 1S08, about the period of the 
ti-ansfer of Louisiana from the French Republic to the 
United States, and was one of the few survivors who wit- 
nessed the event. 

Mr. Stephen Zacharie, the father of the present sub- 
ject, was Cashier of the Bank of Louisiana, the first insti- 
tution of the kind established in the States, and his family 
soon became closely connected with the business interests 
of the newly acquii-ed territory. At the period of the 
British invasion, James Zacharie, in common with the 
youths of his age, threw aside his books, to participate in 
the effort to expel the invaders. He was wounded in 
the battle of the 'i3d of December 1814, and was also in 
the celebrated battle of the Hth of January 1S1.5. 

Shortly after his father's death he was summoned from 
school to take charge of his business affairs, and by his in- 
dustry and capacity soon became one of the most prominent 
mei-chants of this city. He supported with untii'ing energy 
every effoi't to advance the mei-cantile intei'ests of New 
Oi'leans, and during his long and pro.sperous career, was 
vei'y active in maintaining the commercial relations with 
the Spanish West Indies, the Spanish Main, and with Mex- 
ico. He was made President of the Chamber of < om- 
mcrco, and was frequently the director of Banking insti- 
tutions. Like most men of stei'ling and positive character 
he possessed many eccenti-icities, but withal was exceed- 
ingly kind hearted, liberal and honorable. Being one of 
the most pi'ominent and successful merchants he soon ac- 
quired a lai'ge foitune and was enabled to retire to private 
life and enjoy the fruits of his labors. At his death New 
Orleans lost a most useful and enterprising citizen, and his 
family a land, generous and indulgent pai-ent. 

LOUIS .JANIN, ESQ. 

The subject of this sketch is a living example of a man 
retaining his physical and mental powers in perfection past 
seventy years. 

He was born in France. In spite of his reticence con- 
cerning his origin, his contemporaries know that on his 
mother's side he belongs to one of the noblest families of 
the Kingdom of Portugal. His grandmother married one 
of the generals of Frederick II, of Prussia. The King of 
Portugal, who admired the genius of this eminent soldier, 
employed him to instruct his troops in the new military- 
tactics. 

The mother of Louis Janin was the issue of that mar- 
riage. Mr. Janin became an orphan in his infan(;y, and 
was sent to Gennany and reared on the estate of his grand- 
father. After the death of the latter, his tutor settled his 
accounts and succeeded in getting yoiong Janin to travel 
through Western Europe. 

He saw militaiy sei'vice for some time, and at last felt a 
desire of eominsr to the United States. 



He arrived in 1826 or '27 and visited the West, where he 
learned the English language, which he now speaks with 
rare perfection, as well as the Gemian, P'rench, Italian 
and Spanish. 

In 1828 or '29 Janin came to New Orleans and was 
much pleased with the country and the manners of the 
peojjle. 

He was, a few years afterward, admitted to practice as a 
lawyer, and has since had no superior competitors in his 
profes.sion. 

He has great professional energy, and his numerous suc- 
cesses in the most complicated cases, mai-k him as a great 
lawyer. 

Mr. Janin is a cultiu-ed gentleman, frank and straight- 
forward, and always ready to assist others. 

In 184;') he established a sugar refinery in the neighbor- 
hood of New Orleans, in association with ili-. J. P. L. nja- 
min, at that time a famous lawyer in this city. He lost in 
this undertaking a large capital, which he had ac.-cumulated 
by his untiring industry at the bar. 

In 1830 or 1831 he married Miss Covington, one of the 
daughters of Governor Covington, of Kentucky. He had 
from that marriage four sons, who have distinguished 
themselves by their acquirements and honorable chai-acter. 

Edward, the eldest, died in the field of honor, diu-ing our 
late civil war, whilst in command of a Confederate com- 
pany. The other three sons are at present practicing law 
in Califoi'nia, Nevada and Washington City. 

Mr. Janin is of small statui'e and rather stout, with 
piercing dai'k eyes. 

All those who know hun can testify to his amiable dispo- 
sition and suavity of manner. 

It is generally conceded that as a land lawyer he has no 
supeiior in the United States. 



HON. RANDELL HUNT, ESQ. 



Hon. Randei.l Hi xt was born in Charleston, South 
Carolina. He is about fifty years of age, and above the 
middle size. 

He has been United States Senator, and is one of the 
Professors of our University. 

He fii'mly opposed secession and showed at all times his 
attachment and devotion to the Union ; but when the war 
broke out, he did not hesitate to partake of the destiny of 
the South, and was ti'ue to her cause and interests. 

If we have an orator in the highest sense of eloquence — 
the lofty, the impassioned, not being among us common 
qualities — it is he. No lawyer ever advanced greater 
claims to the peisonal confidence and respect of the bar. 

He possesses great depth of voice, speaks with fluency, 
and displays a confidence both of assertion and tone which 
seldom fails to take his hearers' judgment captive. 

Mr. Hunt is distinguished for a most honorable character 
in private life, moderate opinions in politics, extensive in- 
formation upon all subjects in his profession, and talents of 
a high order. 

He is a great constitutional lawyer. The efforts of his 
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pathos, the most lively imagination and the closest reason- 
ing. 

When addressing a jury his strength lies in the lofty 
appeals he makes to the nobler qualities of the heart and 
in his withering scorn of the sordid and base. 

Mr. Hrmt is generally admired not only for his high 
talents, but loved for his generous, charitable, magnani- 
mous and social disposition, frank and dii-ect, with no mean 
qualities or littleness of mind. 



ISAAC N. MARKS, ESQ. 



This gentleman, of Hebrew descent (as his name indi- 
cates) and universally regarded as a distinguished repre- 
sentative of his ancient and highly favored race (in all 
respects save his adoption of Christianity as constituting a 
positive fulfilment of Hebrew predictions), was born at 
Charleston, South Carolina, May 5th, 1817. At the age of 
nineteen he removed to New Orleans and has resided here 
ever since, gi-eatly esteemed by all classes of citizens of all 
creeds, both for his private and his public virtues. None 
of our merchants have maintained a higher character for 
integrity than he, none have reached the acme of wealth 
and prosperity by the exercise of superior skill. Nor does 
he appear at any time to have been more solicitous for his 
own advancement than for the public interests. 

Soon after his arrival here, the mercantile firm of E. J. 
Hart & Company was established, of which Mr. Marks was 
an influential member. The credit, financial ability, and 
extensive resoui'ces of that finn are as well understood at 
New York, Chicago and St. Louis, as they are at New Or- 
leans, and whenever and wherever the name of Isaac N. 
Marks is mentioned in connection with it, it has always 
been considered a synonym for honor, promptitude and 
efficiency. 

Mr. Marks has identified himself very creditably with 
our public institutions. Oificially, he stands in a most re- 
sponsible position, at the head of the Fire Department of 
the city — an essential pai't of our city organization, and 
probably no city in the Union is more adequately pi'ovided 
with men and means for the prompt extinguishment of de- 
structive fires, and for relief to the sufferers by them, not 
merely by Insurance Companies, but by the Fire Compa- 
nies themselves, than the city of New Orleans. In 1840, 
four years after his arrival here, he was elected President 
of Perseverance Fire Company No. 13, and, from year to 
year, continued to be reelected to that office. In 18o0 he 
was chosen President of the Firemen's Charitable Associa- 
tion, representing all the Fire Companies of New Orleans, 
a kind of Masonic brotherhood, whose province it is to 
minister to the wants of the families of its deceased mem- 
bers. For seventeim years Mr. Marks has been elected to 
fill this delicate and difficult post liy acclamation — an evi- 
dence of the fidelity with which he has dispensed the char- 
ities of this noble association. During all that time he has 
also been Chairman of the Board of Commissioners of the 



Fire Department, and, in that capacity, been often required 
to settle nice questions, referred to him, gi'owing out of 
their contract with the City Government. 

The thirty-fifth anniversary of the Firemen's Charitable 
Association will ever be a memorable day in the history of 
New Orleans, and in the life of the subject of this brief 
notice. The whole population of the Crescent City took a 
deep inteiest in the celebration of this anniversary. The 
sentiment which pervaded the entire community was one 
of deep gratitude to the brave and heroic men who were in 
the habit of exposing their lives to save from destruction 
the lives and property of their fellow citizens and to their 
distinguished President. As the Fiie Companies moved 
on through our gi'eat thoroughfares, ari'ayed each in its 
own unifoim, with their glittering engines gaily dressed 
with flowers, to the sound of martial music, they, by pre- 
vious arrangement, paused opposite the City Hall, in order 
to pay their respects to his Honor, the !Mayoi', and the 
City Council. The address made by the President of the 
Fii'e Department, and the response of the Mayor on this 
ocea.sion, were equally creditable to the good taste of loth 
those distingriished individuals, and the subsequent pre- 
sentation to Mr. Marks, at the Varieties Theatre, with im- 
posing ceremonies, of a magnificent silver punch bowl, 
goblets and salver, testified to the high respect and esteem 
entertained for him by the Fire Companies, and was recog- 
nized as well merited by the approving acclamations of 
thousands of gentlemen and ladies who were present to 
witness it. 

Soon after his establishment in New Orleans, the interest 
which he took in public affairs caused him to be elected an 
Alderman of the Sei'ond Mimicipality, which brought him 
into association with such men as Samuel J. Peters, James 
H. Caldwell and Henry Renshaw, who are. to the present 
day, justly regarded as fathers of the city, and piojectors 
of some of the most important refonns, pai'ticularly in the 
depai'tment of education, that have occuired since the 
foundation of it. In all these interpiises Mr. Marks took 
a decided and prominent part. 

As Pi'esident of the Louisiana Fair Association for a 
series of years, he has furnished evidence of an interest in 
the Agi-iculture, Mechanic Arts, and Manufactures of the 
State, such as has piobably been displayed by no other in- 
dividual in oui' midst. He is President also of the New 
Orleans, Florida & Havana Steamship Company, President 
of the New Jerusalem Church Society, Director of the Sun 
Mutual Insurance Comijany and President of the Mutual 
Aid and Benevolent Life Association. 

Mr. Marks was always,' in politics, an old Line Whig, 
belonging to a party that embi'aced many of the pui-est 
patriots and ablest statesmen in the Union. In our late 
troubles he adhered steadfastly to the cause of the South. 
Two of his sons were in the Confedei'ate army. One of 
them (Henry Clay) died at ilalvern Hill, fighting valiantly 
at the head of his own company. The other. Rev. Alexan- 
dei's Mai-ks, is a highly esteemed Episcopal clergyman of 
this city. Mr. Marks is one of nine brothers, all of them 
still living, save one. He is said to have been iminently 
fortunate in all the relations of domestic life. 



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CAPT. BLAYNEY T. WALSHE. 



AiiONG the young and rising merchants of New Or- 
leans there is none whose success has been so marked and 
so rapid as that of Mr. B. T. Walshe, nor is there any one 
more highly esteemed in the community than he is for high 
social character and sterling integrity. Born in New Ross, 
Co., Wexford, Ireland in 1840, Mr. Walshe, with his parents, 
came to New Orleans at the early age of thirteen years, and 
soon after his arrival here found emplojTaent in the house of 
Lagay & Lecanu, then the leading boys' and children's cloth- 
ing establishment of the city. Here he remained for a series 
of years, and by diligence, industry and close application 
prepared himself for the discharge of more responsible duties 
and for a wider field of labor. At the opening of the war Mi'. 
Walshe was engaged in the well-known clothing house of 
Norris, Maull & Co., but like hosts of his countrymen, 
when his adopted State claimed his services in the army, 
he promptly responded to the appeal, and in L861 joined 
the famous Washington Artillery. In May of the same 
year he was elected Lieutenant of Company A, of the Irish 
Brigade, subsequently incorporated in the Sixth La-Regi- 
ment, commanded by Colonel I. G. Seymour. In the i-eeord 
of this regiment, made famous by its bi-aveiy and efficiency 
and by its proud position in Hay's Brigade and Stonewall 
Jackson's Corps, he fully participated in all of its glories 
until, at (-faines's Mills, Captain Walshe was severely 
wouniled in the ankle dui-ing the seven days' fight before 
Richmond. Thus being made unfit for active duty in the 
field, he was assigned to duty in Richmond as Chief of the 
Passport Office of the Department of Henrico. About a 
year after, when able to dispense with the use of crutches, 
he was assigned to staff duty as Chief Provost Marshal of 
South Mississippi and East Louisiana, and served until the 
tennination of the war. 

Having discharged well and faithfully his duties as a sol- 
dier he retui-ned to New Orleans poor in pocket, but full 



of hope, and with a determination to begin anew as it 
were the battle of lile, but not upon such blood-stained 
fields as those he had so recently abandoned. Peace once 
more blessed the land ; the avenues of trade and commerce 
were once inoie opened. For these avocations the early 
training of Mr. Walshe had cultivated a taste and devel- 
oped a talent that subsequently crowned his efforts with 
abundant success. In October 1868, by industry and 
economy, Mr. Walshe was enabled to embark in business 
on his own account. His knowledge of the bu.siness of 
gentlemen's furnishing goods and boys' and children's 
clothing prompted him to make this line a specialty, and 
to say that he has been eminently successful would only be 
to re-echo the public verdict. As one thoroughly identified 
with all of the interests of New Orleans, coming from a 
foi-eign country and adopting this as his home, theie is no 
better specimen of a stranger possessing all of the attri- 
butes of an exemplary and valuable citizen than Mr. 
Walshe. In 18G3, he married a most estimable lady of 
New Orleans, and is now the father of five interesting 
children, three boys and two girls. In his pleasant but 
unostentatious home he is siu-rounded by all the comforts 
and pleasures a devoted family and the fruits of an indus- 
trious life can alone procure. In the various relations of 
life Mr. Walshe is by every one recognized as worthy of 
confidence, respect and esteem. As a citizen he is public- 
spirited, enterprising and liberal. The improvement of the 
city, public works, and private enterprises for the general 
good all meet with his hearty support and substantial as- 
sistance, whilst his social character is that of an upright 
and honorable man, a true fiiend and a generous benefactor. 



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AMILCAR FORTIER. 



The President of the Bank of America has filled the po- 
sition up to the present time with great honor to himself 
and great acceptability to the Stockholders, having already 
declared during the last three years of his administration, 
dividends exceeding ninety jmt cent on the original capital of 
the Bank, after paying all its cash balances since the war 
in gold. Mr. Fortier is a native Louisianian and traces 
his ancestry to two of the oldest, best-luiown, and 
most esteemed families in the State. Although still in the 
prime of life, (he was born in Is-iG), Mr. Fortier has the 
reputation of being one of the most prudent, cautious and 
conservative of our Bank Presidents, and his judgement, 
being guided by a very accurate as well an extensive 
knowledge of the business men of New Orleans, the Bank 
of America, under his administration, has suffered fewer 
losses than it ever did before, whilst its deposits have grad- 
ually increased, until they now surpass in amount those of 
every other Banikng Institution in the city. 



Place d'Armes. — This is an open parade ground com- 
monly known as " Congo Square," fronting on Rampart 
street, between St. Peter and St. Anne streets, with St. 
Claude street in the rear. It differs in no essential re- 
spect from the other public squares of the city. 



JEWELL'S CRESCENT CITY ILLUSTRATED. 



JOSEPH A. MAYBIN, ESQ. 



This eminent citizen and able lawyer came to New 
Orleans from Philadelphia, his native city, in the year 
1817, and has resided here ever since, greatly respected bj' 
all classes of citizens among us. Learned, faithful, con- 
scientious, judicious, no member of the profession has com- 
manded more of the confidence of the community, and he 
has enjoyed an uniform and respectable practice. 

He has been forty-foiu- years a ruling elder in the First 
Presbyterian Church of this city, over which the Rev. Dr. 
Palmer is now pastor. This office is one of gi-eat tru.st 
and importance in the Presbyterian denomination, — the 
duties being to assist the pastor in visiting the sick, dying 
and bereaved members of the chiu'ch, and in other most 
important spu-itual matters, and, on account of his want of 
legal practice for a number of years past, Mr. Maybin has 
been enabled to execute this trust with great assiduity and 
fidelity. 

He prefers the Presbyterian Chm-eh from education, and 
the conviction that its doctrines are most accordant with, 
and sustained by, the truths of the Bible and by sound 
ljhilosof)hy. 

Although not a minister of the gospel, he is perniitted to 
officiate every Sunday morning in the Presbyterian church 
at Carrollton. 

Regarding the intelligence of the people, a& well as reli- 
gion, essential to the maintenance and prosperity of free 
institutions, he was among the foremost of those who 
sought to promote the interests of education in om- midst. 
He accordingly united with the late Samuel J. Peters, 
Joshua Baldwin, Leonard Mathews, Dr. Picton, and other 
high-toned and patriotic men in the great educational 
reform which was introduced here in 1841, and which 
secui-ed for the inhabitants of this city and State, and 
ultimately (as the light of example spread) for the inhabit- 
ants of the whole Mississippi Valley, the advantages of a 
course of popular education, which united all the best 
traits of the New England and Prussian systems. To the 
promotion of this cause, Mr. Maybin, " in season and out 
of season," devoted all the energies of a benevolent heart 
and of an argute and powerful intellect. 

He was, for nine consecutive years, chairman of the 
Committee on Teacliers for the Schools of the Second 
Municipalit)', — a difficult, delicate and responsible trust, in 
the discharge of which (however attached to his own reli- 
gious opinions) he endeavored not to be influenced by any 
theological bias. Whether the applicant for a place were 
a Catholic, a Protestant or an Israelite, it mattered not to 
this truly liberal man, provided he or she (as the case 
might be) possessed the necessary qualifications for teach- 
ing. On the latter point, he was inflexible. 

During the same period, he also acted as a member of 
the different committees for visiting the schools in the 
same mmiicipality. 

After a high-school for boys was established in the 
second municipality, he did not regard the system com- 
plete till a similar institution was introduced for the bene- 
fit of the other sex. The paternity, so to speak, of the 



Young Ladies' High-School, in this city, it is believed, is 
to be attributed to Mr. Maybin, who, for the .'jpace of five 
years, watched over its interests and progress with en- 
lightened and ceaseless vigilance. 

Mr. Maybin, if not the founder of the Houses of Refuge 
in this city, was one of the first of our philanthropii; 
citizens who took eflTectual steps for their establishment 
and organization ; and, with a view to the reformation of 
the juvenile inmates, the commissioners procm-ed the 
erection of and rented diS'erent buildings for the two 
sexes. 

Mr. Maybin was appointed by the Council of the Second 
Municipality a commissioner of those houses for eight con- 
secutive years ; and, during the nine years last past, he 
has, every Sunday afternoon, instructed the inmates of the 
Girl's House of Refuge, in the Holy Scriptures. 

In 1837, Governor Edward White offered to appoint him 
one of the Judges of the Supreme Court of the State, but 
he declined. 

In the year 1841, his friends reciuested him to ajjply for 
the appointment of District Judge of the United States for 
the District of Louisiana, which application would proba- 
bly have been successful. He declined this also. 

For the space of twenty years, commencing fiom 1841, 
and extending down to the secession of the State from the 
Federal Union, he was in the habit, as opportiuiity offered, 
of giving oral religious instructions on Sunday afternoons 
to colored people, in the Lecture Room of the Fh'st Pres- 
byterian Chui'ch. 

When the question of secession was agitated, Mr. May- 
bin was opposed to the measui-e. He delivered his first 
public speech agamst it in the theatre on Poydi-as street, 
and other public speeches in opposition to it at different 
places, and wrote three articles on the subject, which were 
published in the Ficaijune with his name attached. 

He did not discuss the constitutionality of secession, ad- 
mitting that there were great authorities in its favor, but 
he denied its expediency, considering it a bold and dan- 
gerous remedy, and recommended the co-operation of the 
several slave States for the adoption of such measures as 
woiild most fully protect their interests and rights. 

But, when the State of Louisiana adopted its ordinance 
of Secession, on the 2Gth day of January, 1861, Mr. May- 
bin could not imite with men, who, for a quarter of a cen- 
tury, had assailed our institutions in violation of the Con- 
stitution of the United States, who were strangers to him, 
and for whom he had no sjTupathy ; and he determined to 
unite with his fellow-citizens, with whom he had resided 
forty yeais, to whom he was attached by strong associa^ 
tions, and with whom he was identified by pecuniary in- 
terest. He accoi'dingly laid aside the obstruse question of 
the propriety of secession, and heartily united with his 
fellow-citizens in favor of the Confederate cause. 

He was a member of a company of one hundred men, 
too aged to perform militaiy duty, but who were organized 
to tnaintain order and preserve peace in the city, in imita- 
tion of a corps of citizens fornieu lor the same pur^iose 
during the invasion of Louisiana by the British in 1814 
and 1815 ; which company of one hundred men were called 



JEWELL'S ORESCENT CITY ILLUSTRATED. 




miu^ 



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l^iCei MJOlOHAHlCi'S mMM^'m, 



JEWELL'S CRESCENT CITY ILLUSTRATED. 



" The Fossils," and, diiring the whole year of 1861, paraded 
the streets with their double-barreled shot guns, and were 
called, by Mr. Maybin, " Old Fogies." 

Governor Moore appointed him Chaplain in the Louis- 
iana Militia, which office he accepted, in order to be with 
the sick, wounded and dying soldiers, and administer to 
them those comforts and consolations which humanity and 
religion prescribe. He, however, had no opportunity to 
perform the duties of the office, as the city was soon after- 
wards captiu'ed. 

Mr. Maybin has neai'ly lost the sight of his eyes, but his 
intellectual vision is bright as ever. He is still profession- 
ally consulted, but, in preparing law documents, employs 
an amanuensis. He may be seen, nearly every day of the 
week, at the Sun Mutual Insurance Company's office, 
whose law concei'ns are committed to his management, in 
which, however, he is ably and faithfully assisted by Henry 
J, Leovy, Esq., of this city. 

No citizen of the living generation, in New Oi'leans, has 
devoted himself, for half a century, with more singleness 
of purpose, with a clearer and more comprehensive intelli- 
gence, or more sustained perseverance, to the great inter- 
ests of law, religion and the education of the people, than 
the venerable citizen, to whose active and able career we 
have, in these brief remarks, only done partial justice. 



JAMES I. DAY, ESQ. 



This distinguished gentleman, descended from one of the 
oldest families of New England, was born at New London, 
Conn., in 1812. No incidents connected with his child- 
hood and early education have come to our knowledge, but 
his career as a man of business is well understood. In 
1827, at the age of fifteen years, he became connected with 
a hardware establishment in New York city, in the capacity 
of a clerk. Five years afterwards, viz : in the Fall of 
1832, he came to New Orleans, and connected himself in 
the same way with a mercantile concern of like character, 
the old and respectable finn of "Whiting & Slark, of which 
firm he became a partner in the year 1837, and in which 
he continu.ed, under the respective firms of Whiting & 
Slark ; Slark, Day, Stauffer & Co. ; and Slark, Day & 
Staufier, until the year 1853, when he retired and removed 
to Connecticut, hLs health having been considerably im- 
paired by his long and close application to business. 

In 1836 Mr. Day formed a matrimonial connection with 
Miss Armitage, of Baltimore, sister of Mrs. Robert Slark, 
of this city, an alliance which contributed greatly to his 
domestic felicity. 

Upon the death of Mr. Benjamin Story, in consideration 
of his financial abilities and influence, he was elected to 
supply his place as President of the Bank of Louisiana, 
which position, however, he resigned in favor of Mr. Wm. 
W. Montgomery, his own avocations not pei'mitting him to 
give as much attention to the Bank as he thought nec- 
essary. 

After taking up his residence in Connecticut, he became 
partner in the house of Bruff, Brother & Scarer, in New 



York, who, at the commencement of the war, were doino- 
the largest hardware business in that city, and that almost 
entirely v/ith the South, and which, in consequence of the 
war, became utterly ruined, involving him (being the capi- 
talist in the concern), in vei'y largo losses. 

Mr. Day was for many years President of the New York, 
Providence & Boston Railroad Company, and of several 
other Corporations in Connectictut and New York. 

In consequence of his sympathies with the South in the 
early part of the war, he was threatened with arrest and 
imprisonment, and other hostile demonstrations. An order 
was at one time issued in New York for the seizui-e of his 
papers and effects, and only deferred through personal in- 
fluence of Republican friends. The pressure on him was 
so great that he at length felt compelled to leave the 
country for a time. He accordingly went to Europe, 
where h • spent about a year, till matters were quieted at 
home. He then returned to New York, where he remained 
until the close of the war, which stripped him of all his 
property. 

In 1868 he returned to the Crescent City, where he asso- 
ciated himself with his son-in-law, C. H. Slocomb, Esq., 
and where he remained until his election recently to the 
office of President of the Sun Mutual Insurance Company. 
During his long residence in New Orleans, he has been 
associated with most of the public enterprises of the day, 
always acknowledging the obligations which every success- 
ful man of business owes to the community in which he 
lives, and consequently co-operating with a cheerful spirit 
with all patriotic men, and contributing substantial aid to 
every meritorious object that claimed his attention. A 
Northern man, trained in Southern princijilas — the princi- 
ples of the Federal Constitution — he loved with ardor the 
land of his birth, but has always adhered to his political 
faith with inflexible firmness. Exposed to the vicissitudes 
of fortune, he has never succumbed to them, biit with 
every reverse that has befallen him has reasserted his in- 
dependence, and addressing himself with renewed energy 
to the task of triumphing over difficulties and achieving 
the success which, for the most part, crowns the labors of 
courageous men. 



THOMAS SLOO, ESQ. 



This venerable gentleman, now in the eighty-third year 
of his age, but with intellect unimpaired, and a cheerful- 
ness of temper which promises a prolongation of his active 
and useful life, was born in Washington, Mason County, 
Kentucky, April 5th, 1790. At sixteen years of age, he 
removed from his native State to Cincinnati, Ohio, and the 
first position in which we find him, is that of Assistant to 
General Findlay, Receiver of Public Moneys at Cincinnati, 
and which he appears to have occupied till the year 1820, 
when he removed to Illinois, and devoted himself to agri- 
culture. 

The interest which he took in public afi'airs led to his 
election several times to the Legislature of that enterpris- 
ing and prosperous State. On one occasion he was nomi- 
nated as its Whig candidate for Governor, when he can- 



JEWELL'S CRESCENT CITY ILLUSTRATED. 



vassed the entire State, in opposition to the celebrated 
Ninian Edwards. 

In 1828 Mr. Sloe removed to New Orleans, and estab- 
lished himself as a Commission Merchant, maintaining a 
high reputation for gentlemanly demeanor, honor and in- 
tegrity. For several years he occupied the responsible 
post of City Treasm-er. 

Upon the organization of the City Schools, about the 
year 1840, the deep interest he had always taken in the 
cause of popular education, led to his appointment as one 
of their Directors, in connection with Leonard Mathews, 
Esq., Hon. Joshua Baldwin (then Recorder of the Second 
Municipality), Dr. Pictou and J. A. Maybin, Esq. — all men 
of great respectability and among the leading citizens of 
New Orleans, at a period when it was the custom of the 
city to appoint only such men to stations of trust and 
honor. 

From the time of the incorparation of the Sun Mutual 
Insurance Company of New Orleans, he has filled, with 
marked ability, the office of President of that flom-ishing 
institution ; but, in consequence of advancing years, has 
recently retired from its arduous labors. He still takes 
a lively interest in its affairs, is provided with a seat at its 
office, which he frequents daily, and retains for life, through 
the courtesy and liberality of the company, his annual 
salary. 

Trained in the old school of politeness, no gentleman is 
more I'emarkable for the lu'banity of his manners, the 
equanimity of his temper and the eminent purity of his 
character ; none is ever more ready to find some apology 
for any one whom he may hear accused of wrong. So scru- 
pulous is he as to injuring the virtue of others, that he was 
never heard to speak ill of any one, or repeat a rumor to 
his injury. In his friendships he is as reliable as he is 
slow and deliberate in fonaing them. 

In politics Mr. Sloo used to belong to the Old Line 
Whigs, when that party was in the ascendency, and his 
memory stiU lingers with fondness over its history. In 
religion he is a quiet, steadfast devotee of Episcopacy. In 
opinions and practice he is a conservative, holding the 
golden mean that lies between objectionable extremes. 



The City Prisons. — These edifices are built of brick, 
and plastered to imitate granite, they are three stories in 
height, occupying one hundred and twenty three feet on 
Orleans and St. Ann streets, by one hundred and thirty- 
eight feet nine inches between them. They are two in 
number, and divided by a passage way that is closed to the 
public. The principal building has its main entrance from 
Orleans street, through a circular vestibule, closed by 
strong iron doors. The lower stoi'y contains the offices 
and apartments of the jailor. The second story is divided 
into large halls for such prisoners as require to be less 
strictly guarded. The plan of the third story is similar. 
The whole is surmounted by a belvidere, with an alarm 
bell. The cost is estimated at 1200,000. 



MRS. MARY S. WHITAKER. 



This well known poet, essayist and novelist, is a daugh- 
ter of Rev. Prof. Samuel Furman, one of the most emi- 
nent, eloquent and learned divines of South Carolina, and 
granddaughter of Rev. Richard Furman, D. D., of Charles- 
ton, S. C, chiiruin et venerahUe noinen, connected with the 
annals of the American Revolution, and the early history 
of South Carolina, of whose Constitution, such as it was 
before the commencement of the late war, he was one of 
the original framers. So powerful was the influence ex- 
erted by this celebrated divine in spreading, among the 
masses of the people, the flame of liberty and independence, 
during the revolutionary era, that Lord Cornwallis set a 
price upon his head. He was greatly beloved by all classes 
and denominations of people while he lived, and his funeral, 
upon the interment of his remains, was the largest ever 
seen in Charleston, except that of the late John C. 
Calhoun. 

On the mother's side, Mrs. W. is of Scottish lineage, of 
the family of Scrjinzeour, famous in Scottish history, and 
including among its celebrated names, those of Montook 
and Dundee, immortalized by their heroism, and by the 
pens of S r Walter Scott and the late lamented Aytoun. 

She received her earliest instructions under the domestic 
roof, from her now venerable father, always a ripe scholar, 
an acute logician, and imbued not less with the love of let- 
ters than philosophy. She early exhibited a sensitive 
genius, and di.splayed much poetic power, devoted herself 
assiduously to the study of history on an extended scale, 
and of English classics, particularly the poets of Great 
Britain. To an amoiuit of leaning, rarely attained by the 
women of America, she unites a cultivated taste and a high 
order of intellect. Probably there is no English prose 
writer, of either sex, who has attained to greater vigor and 
purity of style. She particularly excels in the delineation 
of scenery and character. Her Poems, published in 18-50, 
elicited the highest praise from AVilliam CuUeu Bryant and 
other American critics. In Eurojie, her poetical effusions 
attracted attention, and the celebrated Thomas Campbell, 
at a literary reunion at the house of the late Robert Cham- 
bers, on hearing one of her pieces recited, clapped his 
hands, exclaiming : " That belongs to the school of Pope 
and Campbell, which is the best of all schools, and I claim 
this young lady as my spiritual daughter." 

While in Scotland with her parents, she married John 
Miller, Advocate, of Edinburgh, brother of the present 
Member of Parliament for Leith and the adjacent boroughs. 
Mr. Miller was at that time Assessor for Leith, and, subse- 
quently, her Britaimic Majesty's Attorney-General for the 
British West Indies. This distinguished official died at 
Nassau, New Providence, three months after their mar- 
riage. 

Mrs. Whitaker is still actively engaged in writing, and, 
if her life is spared, will, in all probability, be better known 
to the public hereafter than she now is; although, by her 
voluminous communications to the press, and her published 
pieces, prose and poetical, she has already acquii'ed the 
reputation of being one of the most finished and elegant 
authors of this century. 

She is wife of Prof. D. K. Whitaker, of this city. 



JEWELL'S CRESCENT CITY ILLUSTRATED. 



BANK OF AMERICA. 




iCOaiPOHATS 



eapiM, $ 301,800 



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AM. FQfRTIEfR, President, 

J. E. PASCAL; Cashier. 



&£EECTU^S^ 

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Ar,:. Furtier. 

C. jf. Leeds ^ 

J. J. Fernandez, 
J. I. Adams, 

J. ^cherck, 

(D. '^Boidigny, 
W. 'B. Scluuidt, 

©. Fatjo. 

F. W. niton, 
M. ^uig, 

Ant. Giratid, 

Gus. Miltenberger, 
A. C. Hutchinson. 



Corner of Canal Street and Exchange iHey. 



This well-known and excellent Banking Institution is 
located in the fine building fronting on Canal street, and 
of which an engi-a^ing is given above, the rear of the 
premises (which belong to the Bank) being oc;'up'.( d by the 
wholesale wine and liquor store of Messrs. Cavaroc & Son. 
The Bank of America was established in 18.57, with a cap- 
ital of half a million of dollars and was originally loca- 
ted in one of the Pontalba Buildings on the corner of St. 
Peter and Old Levee .streets, and where the People's Bank 
now stands. Mr. W. G. Hewes, an old and highly-esteemed 
merchant of New Orleans, was its first President. Mr. 



Amilear For'tier, the present very able and popular Presi- 
dent of the Bank, receiving the appointment of cashier. 
Upon the death of Mr. Hewes in 1 862, the Presidency of 
the Bank was successively held by Messrs. Wm. "Wliann 
and Charles Cavaroc, when, upon the resignation of the last- 
named gentleman in 1866, the office was unanimously ten- 
dered to the present incumbent. Mr. J. E. Pascal, the 
present Cashier of the bank of America, is also a native 
Louisianian, and is held in very high esteem by all those 
who have been in contact with him either officially or 
personally. 



JEWELL'S CRESCENT CITY ILLUSTRATED. 



CHURCH OF ST. JOHN THE BAPTIST. 

This noble edifice, built in the Renaissanee style of ar 
chitecture, measures, on the outside, 17:2 feet in length liy 
75 in width. Its ceiling, groined and arched, is fifty-five 
feet in height from the floors, and the groins supported by 
columns. The pews, 186 in number, are made of black wal- 
nut with mohogany trimmings. The Organ Gallery is of 
elliptic shape. The impressions made on the mind of the 
beholder on entering this sacred edifice are those of simple 
grandeur, accuracy of propoi'tion and beauty of finish. 
The senses are charmed, the tastes gratified, the sensibility 
touched, and the imagination exalted. All the suri'oudings 
are calculated to awaken emotions at once august and ten- 
der — in a word — to lift the soul from earth to heaven. 
Over the alter of St Joseph, (in fresco) you see a represen- 
tation of one of the eai'liest and most touching incidents in 
Christian History, the Flight of the Savior of Mankind 
into Egypt, a picture, and, over the Virgin Mary's altar, 
another picture of the A.ssumption of the Blessed Virgin. 

All the decorations of the Church were in the beautifvil 
Renaissance style, but they are not yet completed. An or- 
gan is being built, in that style by Henry El)en, Esq., of 
New York city, the fourth of the kind built in the United 
States, and the most powerful ever introduced into this 
city. Altai's are being built for the Church at Cork, Ire- 
land, of pure white Italian mai-ble, the shafts of the col- 
umns and pilasters of Irish Green and Gold mai-ble. A 
statue of St. John, is to be on one side of the altar, and one 
of St. Patrick on the other, the altar itself to be surmounted 
by the Angel of Hope holding a Chalice. The sanctuary 
floor will be in Mosaic, with different light-colored Irish 
marble, and the floor of the Transept and Sanctuary steps, 
of Italian marble. The estimated cost of St. John's 
Church, when completed, is set down at $200,000. The 
gi-and structure reflects infinite credit on the skill of 
Thomas Mulligan, Esq , the architect, as well as from the 
indefatigable zeal and enterprize of Father Moynahan, 
(who prosecuted the arduous labor to its completion with 
the spirit of another Solomon), and upon the citizens of 
all classes and creeds, who contriViuted to its election with 
unbounded liberality. 

The dedication of this ehui'ch took place on the 9th of 
January 1872, under the auspices of his Grace, the Most 
Rev. Arch-Bishop Peiche, (all the Catholic clei'gy attend- 
ing) with the imposing magnificence that belongs to the 
ceremonials of the Roman Catholic church on such occa- 
sions, and in the presence of a vast concourse of citizens. 
The well known poet-priest and orator, Father Ryan, of 
Mobile, officiated on the occasion, and rendered it more 
memoi'able by his eloquence. 



THE NEW ORLEANS MUTUAL INSURANCE CO. 



The New Orleans Insurance Company was incorporated 
in 183.'i, a fact which confei's upon it the distinction of 
being the oldest Insurance Company in New Orleans, and 
the oldest but one in the United States. Its first officers 
were M. M. P. De Buys and Thos. Urquhardt, Mr. A. Saint 



THE FERRIES. 



The Third District Ferry plies every half hour from the 
head of Elysian Fields Street, Left Bank, and Olivier 
Street, Algiers, from 5 a. m. to 8 p. m., and is owned and 
conducted by Jose Carreras, Esq. 

Morgan's Railroad Ferry plies between the head of St. 
Anne Street and the landing in front of his depot in Algiers. 
The arrivals and departures of his boats are regulated to 
correspond with the time of the passengers and freight 
trains to and from Algiers. Cars from Brashear over the 
Morgan road are crossed to the Left Bank and sent east 
over the New Orleans, Mobile & Texas Road without 
change or bi'eaking bulk, the gauge of the former having 
been lately changed, to correspond with the entire line 
from New Orleans to New York. 

The Second District Ferry lilies every half hour between 
St. Anne Street and Bouny Street, Algiers, from 4* a. m. 
until 82^ p. M. under the direction of Messrs. Drum and 
Hanley. 

Canal Street Ferry plies from the head of Canal Street 
to Villei'ii Street, Right Bank, two, three or foui' times 
each hour, from 4i a. m. to 9 P. M., and each half hour 
during the night. This ferry employs two boats, the 
" Louisa," with capacity for 25 carriages or vehicles, with 
ample accommodations for passengers. The cabins and 
decks of the boats and the ferry passages and platfonus 
are kept in scrupulous order and the officers are noted for 



Martin succeeding the latter as Presidant in 1845, in which 
year Mr. Jules Tuyes took Mr. Saint Martin's place as 
Secretary. On the retirement of Mr. St. Martin in ls,i4, 
Mr. Jules Tuyes was promoted to the Presidency of this 
company— a position still filled by him with credit and 
ability. In 1859, the mutual system being much in vogue, 
the stockholders of the company reorganized it in accord- 
ance with that system and under its present title of the 
New Orleans Mutual Insurance Company, its capital being 
then $500,000, and its assets amounting to $750,000. The \ 
New Orleans Mutual Insm-ance C. mpany is justly looked 
upon as one of the safest and best managed public institu- 
tions of this city. It is distinguished from the other com- 
panies by a feature which originated with Mr. Tuyes, and 
has proved generally acceptable as well as eminently suc- 
cessful. Instead of being merged together, the dividends 
earned in each of the three departments (Fire, Marine and 
River,) are paid out to each insurer in proportion to the 
premiiuns he has paid in the particular department in 
which the profit was made thereby securing to him in 
practice the lowest rate of insurance attainable under the 
mutual system, as he receives the full share of the profits 
realized in the department to whi h his insurance belongs 
without being called upon to make, from his earned divi- 
dends, any deficiency that might occur in another 
department. Mr. J. W. Hincks, the present efficient 
Secretary of the New Orleans Mutual Insurance Company, 
was for more than twenty years Deputy Collector of the 
Port of New Orleans. Like Mr. Tuyes, he is a native of 
this city, where he has always stood deservedly high. 



JEWELL'S CRESCENT CITY ILLUSTRATED. 



iirbanity. The Tug propeller, Little Jerry, perforins the 
night service for foot passengers and at times alternates 
with the Louisa. In warm summer, by invitation of the 
liberal proprietors, the boats are thronged with citizens 
who remain on board for hours enjoying the breezes of the 
river, making several trips for a single fare. 

The Ferry is owned and conducted by Capt. .John Kouns 
and Capt. Wra. T. Seovell, under the linn of .Tohn Kouns 
&Co. 

The Fourth District Ferry plies between the head of 
Jackson Street and the village of Gretna, making twelve 
or fifteen trips per day, between 6 A. M. and 7 or S p. si. 

The Sixth District (or Bobb's) Ferry plies from the head 
of Louisiana Avenue, Sixth District, to Bobb's Mills ft'oni 
dawn until dark. 

THE ACADEMY OF MUSIC. 



Although the Academy of Music is of more recent estab- 
lishment than its competitors, it can boast of being the old- 
est liuilding after the St. Charles' Theatre, devoted to the- 
atrical entertainments. It was constructed in 185-3 by 
George C. Lawrason, Esq., of this city, for its present l(\s- 
see and manager, Mr. D. Bidwell, and opened the same 
year as an amphitheati-e, with a portable stage, by the re- 
nowned circus man, Dan Rice. Its character as an amphi- 
theatre was retained until the next year, 1854, when the 
" Varieties Theatre —where Mr. and Mrs. Dion Bouei- 
cault were then to perform — was destroyed by fire for the 
first time. The opportunity of supplying the deficiency 
was seized upon by Mr. Bidwell, who immediately trans- 
formed the amphitheatre into a regular theatre. Mr. John 
Calder, who had been the treasiii'er of the Varieties, opened 
the institution with the unemployed members of the Varie- 
ties company, and the " Pelican Theatre," was thus inau- 
gurated. From this time until the year 1856 the Pelican 
Theatre was rented. by Mr. Bidwell to combination eomija- 
nies, until that gentleman \vas joined by Messrs. Spaulding 
and Rogers in the proprietorship and management of the 
theatre, and it assumed its present j^opular name, " The 
Academy of Music." The attractions to the Academy were 
increased by the additimi of a museum, in which was gath- 
ered a large collection of natural and other curiosities. In 
18(36 Mr. Rogers' connection with the firm ceased, and Dr. 
iSpaulding, in 187tt, leaving Mr. Bidwell, the original mana- 
o-er, sole proprietor. Every year the Academy, rindej- its 
intelligent and energetic administration, has received new 
improvements which niaki' it now one of the most complete 
of modern theatres. The museum has been discontinucil, 
and the space allotted to that deijartment, in the front imv- 
tion of the building, has been converted into neat and ele- 
gant reception and dressing rooms for the use of ladies and 
children, who so liVierally patronize the Academy. The 
seasons at the Academy commence earlier and end latei- 
than at any of oiu' other theati'es, and its administration 
presents besides several important and noteworthy feat- 
ui'es, an elaborate steam apparatus supplies the auditoi-ium 
with hot or cold air, accoi'ding to the season, and ainple 
provision is made for a copious supply of water in casi' of 
fire : an admirable arransrement exists about its stage, con- 



sisting of the entire absence of scenery, except that which 
is needed for the evening's performance. All sni-plus 
scenei'y is carefully stored away in an adjoining fire-proof 
i-ooni, to which it is easily shifted by means of a simple con- 
trivance. This is an excellent arrangement (which, we 
believe is not adopted by any other theatre in this country,) 
not only as an additional precaution against fire but be- 
cause of the facilities it afi'oi'ds in the stage opei-ations. 
T'ae Academy is the original matinee theatre in New Or- 
leans, and the success and popularity resulting from these 
noon performances have led the other theatres to follow 
Mr. Bidwell's example. The Academy was also the first 
theatre in New Orleans to be ijro\-ided with the pat -nt 
iron settees now so genei'ally popular in the Noi-th. To 
say that the Academy is one of the cosiest and most elegant 
places of amusement in the country is but to confirm the 
public opinion. The uninitiated would be surprised, in 
fact, at the first glance to conceive that its seating capacity 
is nearly 1 ,800, and that very few theatres in the country 
have achieved the pecuniary success which has attended its 
management — the clear profits of one season, since the 
war, being estimated at a figure approximating sixty 
thousand dollars. During the career of this theatre most 
of the distinguished actors, actresses, and combination 
ocmpanies, vai'ying from negi'O ministrelsy and the bur- 
lescjue to the most refined comedy, and the lightest ordei 
of the drama, have appeared on its boards, and entitled it 
a patronage rivaling the most successful enterprises of its 
kind. In Mr. Jake Kittredge, who has been connected with 
the Academy in the capacity of Treasurer, for many years 
Mi: Bidwell has found a valuable assistant in the manage- 
ment of his theatre. Combining, as he does, strict busi- 
ness qualifications, and a peculiar tact to make himself the 
favorite of the patrons and the employees of the institution, 
his services have been as invaluable as his poiiularity is 
extensive. 



THE :kIORESQUE BUILDING. 



This magnifi-eent iron edifice, which occupies an entire 
square at the corner of ( 'amp and Poydras streets, was 
commenced by J. C. Barelli, Esq., in the Winter of 1859 — 
I860. It was originally to have contained six stores, and a 
ball room 6S feet by 147. One-half of the building was 
roofed, when its further progress was interrupted by the 
war, during whi<-li all the eojipei' was stolen, and tlie tim- 
bers of the unstated ball room rotted. About .?-J40,(IOII 
had then been expended on it. 

Subsecpiently, the building was purchased by John 
(iauche, Esq., for $160,000, who received an offer equiva- 
lent to about $87,000 per year for it, to he converted into a 
hotel. He refused taking the risk of the additional cost, 
about !?i;i5. 01)11, including furniture, and expended about 
$110,0110 in putting it in its present condition. 

The liuilding covers a small scpiare of 150 feet on each 
siile, lietween Poydras, Camp, North, and St. Mary streets. 
It is three stories and an attic in height. The foui- fronts 
are of ii'on in the Mooi-ish style, or style of the Alhambra, 
and were executed at Holly Springs, (Miss.,) by Messrs. 
Jones, McElvain & Co. This foimdry was vised for an ord- 
nance fcnindry in the early part of the war, but was after- 
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HON. DUNCAN F. KENNER. 



This gentleman, whose name was so familiar to the peo- 
ple of Louisiana before the late war, as a Sugar Planter 
and leading turfman, was born in New Orleans in the early 
part of the present century. The best portions of his life 
have been devoted to agricultural pursuits and the cognate 
m-.tter of rearing and improving the thorough-bred horse. 
Few persons of the present day have been more successful 
in eithei' pui'suit. As a planter he was active, energetic 
and d('\()tedly attached to his vocation, for he was a strong 
b('lie\cr in the good old maxim, that 

•• lie, who l)y the plough would thrive, 
Iliiiiself must cither hold or drive." 

As a tui'fman, his career was brilliant, as all who recol- 
lect the glories of the old Metarie, Eclipse, Louisiana and 
Bingaman <?ourse, will testify. In the days of the glories 
of the American turf, Mr. Kenner's name ever ranked 
among the first. 

Like many planters, he devoted much of his time to 
reading and to study. The taste and habits of his col- 
legiate education was not allowed to rust from neglect. He 
possessed one of the finest private libraries in the State, 
and devoted hours, each day, to literary pursuits. A man 
of entcrpiise and progress, he never hesitated to adopt the 
most scientific methods of perfecting the development of 
the cane and manufacture of sugar. 

It is not to bo supposed that a gentleman of his fortune 
and attainments should not have been frequently called 
upon by his fellow-citizens to take an active pai't in the 
political affairs of his native State. He first took his seat 
in the House of Representatives of the State Legislature 
in ISSG, and continued, almost without intermission, a 
member of the House, or State Senate, from that time till 
1860. He was elected to the State Constitutional Conven- 
tion called, in 1S44, to remodel the Constitution of 1812, 
and again, in 1852, when he was elected to a Convention 
called to amend the Constitution. Over this Convention, 
which embraced among its members many of the ablest 
jurists and leading politicians of that day, Mr. Kenner pre- 
sided, having. been elected its President by a most flatter- 
ing majority. 

In 186(), Mr. Kenner was a candidate for what is known' as 
the Secession Convention, and, for the fii'st time in twenty- 
four years, was defeated by his old constituents of Ascen- 
sion Parish, the people of Ascension having strong Union 
sentiments, and Mr. Kenner equally decided Secession pro- 
clivities. After the ado^jtion by the Convention of the 
Secession Resolutions, Mr. Kenner was elected by the 
Convention as one of the six Representatives to the Con- 
gress called at Montgomery, Alabama, to frame a Con- 
federate Constitution and Government. He continued a 
member of the Confederate Congress ,from its first forma- 
tion to the final disruption of that Government and the 
surrender of General Lee. Probably the best estimate of 
the appreciation in which Mr. Kenner was held by his col- 
leagues is found in the fact, that, after one year's service 
in the Provisional Congi-ess, he was appointed Chairman of 
the Committee on Ways and Means of the House of Rep- 



resentatives, the most important Committee of that body, 
who.se Chairman is the acknowledged leader of the House. 
This position was not attained by the power of speech nor 
by the graces of oratory, for to these Mr. Kenner never 
l^retended (though no member, when he rose to address it, 
ever commanded the more undivided attention of the 
House), but to the exhibition in the Committee Room, 
where the real business of legi-slation is tisually done, of 
practical good common sense, and a thorough knowledge 
of the adaptation of the means to the ends to be accom- 
plished. 

In 186.3 and '64, Mr. Kenner became convinced that the 
great difficulty in the way of the recognition of the Inde- 
pendence of the Confederate States by the European pow- 
ers was the institution of Slavery, and that, without such 
recognition, the question of Confederate Independence was 
probably destined to defeat, in fact, that the institution of 
slavery had to be given up, or the hopes of Confederate 
Independence would, more than probably, be lo.st forever. 

Under this conviction he urged upon the Richmond 
Government to assume, in the face of the world, the obliga- 
tion to abolish slavery in the event of the success of the 
Indei^endence of the Confederate States. Though the 
views entertained by him were assented to, more or less, 
by many of the leaders at Richmond, it was thought that 
the jjublic sentiment of the Southern States was not ripe 
for so bold a movement at that time. Tliese views, how- 
ever, were strengthened by the progress of events, and, in 
October or November 1864 Mr. Davis determined to adopt 
the piolicy of Emancipation as an extreme means to secure 
recognition by England and France, and, as he then 
thought, the consequent Independence of the Confederate 
States. 

A trusty and confidential agent, fully possessed of the 
wi.shes of the Richmond Government, and, at the same 
time, a discreet and judicious person was ret^uired to go to 
Etu'ope and communicate this change of policy on the .sub- 
ject of slavery to the Emperor Napoleon and to Lord Pal- 
merston, the then recognized controllers of the French and 
English foreign policy. Mr. Kenner was eelected by Mr. 
Davis and the Richmond Cabinet as that agent. To pass 
through the Federal lines, which were then being gradu- 
ally drawn closer and closer aro.ttnd Richmond, was no 
easy or altogether safe trip for a Confederate Congressman. 
Provided with the j)roj)er credentials and docimients, all 
in cypher, concealed on his person, Mr. Kenner accepted 
the mission with all its chances of discovery, imprison- 
ment, and, probably, death, and left Richmond to go via 
New York, in December 1864. He arrived in New York 
in some three weeks from the time of his departiu-e from 
Richmond, walking nearly across Maryland, hid for days, 
occasionally, in farm houses, where the owners avowed 
themselves as " Southern sympathizers ;" he often made 
narrow escapes of detection, under an assumed name and 
for an a.ssumed purpose. He ariived in England in Janu- 
ary or February 186."). Steps were immediately taken to 
bring to the notice of Louis Napoleon and Lord Palmerston 
the intentions and purposes of the Richmond Government. 
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on. The constant advance of the Federal armies on to 
Richmond, and the evident weakening of the Confederate 
defences, destroyed all possibility of foreign recognition. 

Immediately on Mr. Kenner's return to Louisiana, after 
the war, he was elected to the State Senate by his old con- 
stituents. He served in this capacity in the sessions of 
1866 and 1867 ; and, since the adoption of the Reconstruc- 
tion measiu-es of 1868, he has confined his attention to his 
private aifairs, and returned to his former occupation of 
cultivating the sugar cane, which, we learn, he is doing on 
a very extensive scale, being, with one exception, probably, 
more largely interested in that cultivation than any peison 
in this State. 

FATHER CORNELIUS MOYNAHAN. 



PROFESSOR EUGENE PRKVOST. 



Father Cornelius Moynahan emigi-ated to the United 
States at the same time, and in the same ship, with his dis- 
tinguished brother. Father J. Moynahan ; and so similar 
has been the career of these two brothers, the influence 
they have exerted in Catholic circles, the energy they have 
displayed in building churches, founding schools and con- 
vents, the ecclesiastical offices they have filled, and the 
esteem in which they have been held by all classes among 
us, that they have acquired in this community, the title to 
be regarded and to be called, ^ww nohilc frntnnii. 

Father C. Moynahan received his classical education in 
Ireland, finished his theological course in the Diocese of 
New Orleans, and was invested with the functions and dig- 
nity of the priesthood by the Most Reverend Archbishop 
Blanc, in the year 1 84.S. The sphere of his operations lay 
in the Third District of New Orleans, which, at the time of 
his investiture, was withoiit any proper ecclesiastical 
organization for the Roman Catholics. He was accord- 
ingly commissioned by the Archbishop of the Diocese, to 
build a church for the English speaking population of that 
district, and first erected a framed edifice for the purpose ; 
but the congregation inci-eased so rapidly under his admin- 
istration, that a m( re commodious and substantial building 
for its accommodation became necessary, and the result 
was, the erection of what is now St. Peter's Church, — a fine 
brick edifice of sufficient dimensions to meet the require- 
mients of that portion of the meti-opolis. The frame church, 
fli-st erected, was converted into a Parochial School, largely 
attended by the children of that and the neighboring par- 
ishes, the depai'tment of female instruction being presided 
over by the Sisters of the Holy Cross, and the male depart- 
ment by lay teachers. 

No naturalized citizen has ever identified himself more 
entirely with our national institutions than Father C. 
Moynahan, — none is m(]r(^ \uiiversally resjK'cted _and be- 
loved ; none more influential in social, theological, and 
educational circles; none a more decided champion of 
Roman Catholic schools to be placed exclusively under 
Roman Catholic influences. His pulpit eloquence is 
classical, pathetic, earnest, persuasive and impressive, 
(leci)ly imbued witli what the French call oni-tio/i, and the 
Latins mi/irifcr in inodo. The latter trait is conspicuous 
in his general intercoiu'se with society, whether lay or cler- 
ical. Like his older bnither, he has been raised to the dig- 
nity of Canon, and is oijc of the Counsellors of his Grace, the 
Archbishop. 



Mk. Eugene Pkevost, the distinguished musical com- 
posei', professor and orchestra leader, was for ten years a 
pupil of the Paris " Conservatoire de Musique," where he 
obtained in 1829 two prizes for composition, and in 1S81 
received the unanimous vote of the jury (composed of the 
most eminent musicians of that period) for the " Grand 
Prix de Rome," the highest honoi' bestowed by the Consei- 
vatory of Music. In 188."i Mr. Prevost's first opera, Cosiino, 
was produced at the " Opera Comique," where it was per- 
formed for moi'e than two hundred nights in succession, 
and at once gave him a reputation as one of the most 
promising musical writers of the day. This charming 
opera boicfe, which still retains its place upon the stage, 
was followed in quick succession by " Les Pontons de Ca- 
diz," one act, and " Le Bon Garcon," both of which wei-e 
also performed at the Opera ("omiqiie with great success, 
the latter especially, as well as '■ L'lllustre Gaspad," another 
comic opera produced upon the same boards in 1S37. The 
next year Mr. Pr6vost came to New Orleans, having been 
engaged by Mr. P. Davis as leader of the orchesti'a of the 
French Opera — a post he has filled almost uninterruptedly 
for over twenty years with inmicnse credit to himself and 
great benefit to the management, the artists, and the 
musical amateurs of New Orleans. During that period 
Mr. Pr6vost composed " La Esmeralda," a four act opera ; 
" La Chaste Suzanne," four acts ; " Alice et Clair," thi'ce 
acts ; " Josue," an oi'atrio in three parts ; " L'Orleanaise," 
a patrioti<; overtui'e ; several cantatas with full orchestral 
and choral accompaniments ; a " Solemn Mass," a " Te 
Deum," dedicated to the Queen of Spain, and for which the 
author received the grand ci'oss of (^harles the Third ; a 
" Requiem Mass," and other compositions too numerous to 
mention, all of which were perfoinied here with great suc- 
cess. In 1862 Mr. Prevost I'cturned to Europe, where, after 
filling for two seasons the post of leader of the orchestra 
in several first-class theatres, he was engaged by the cele- 
lirated composer, OfFenhach, as leader of his theatre, "Les 
Bouffes Pai'isiens," which position he subsequently relin- 
quished for the leadership of the grand concerts of the 
" Champs Elysees," in Paris. Since his retm-n to New 
Orleans, Mr. Eugene Prevost has devoted himself almo.st 
exclusively to teaching, and the eagerness with which his 
lessons are sought after is the best evidence of the excel- 
lence of his method, and of the gi'atifying I'esults he has 
obtained. It may safely be assei'ted that to no single 
individual is our community moi'e deeply indebted for the 
excellent musical taste and the general cultivation of that 
most fascinating of the fine arts than to Mr. Eugene Pre- 
vost. Should Mr. Placide Cauonge succeed in engaging an 
operatic company foi' the season of ls72-';!, it is gratifying 
to know that the orchestra will 1h> under the experienced 
leadership of the learni'd ami accomplished nuisician 
whose career we have briefly sketched, and whose pre-emi- 
nent claims to the distinction arc univeisallj- acknowl- 
edged by all competent judges. 

Since the foregoing sketch was written, ^Mr. Prevost has 
died. His illness was brief and his demise was as unex- 
pected, as it was sincerely re retted. 



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DR. DANIEL WARREN BRICKELL, 



Was born in Columbia, S. C, in 18li4. His ancestry, of 
mixed Irish, Frencli and Englisli blood, were among the 
earlier settlers of the State, and his maternal grandfather, 
Daniel Faiish, was the founder of the first newspaper in 
Columbia, which became the official organ, when that town 
was made the Capitol of South Carolina. 

Dr. Brickell received a careful classical education at the 
best schools, and gi'uduated as a physician in the Univer- 
sity of Pennsylvania in 1S47. 

In the fall of the same year he was jjassed second, in a 
list of some foi-ty applicants, before the Naval Examining 
Board at Philadelphia, and received his Commission as an 
Assistant Surgeon in tlie U. S. Navy. His orders, how- 
ever, assigned him to duty at the Naval Station of Pensa- 
cola, in the place of active servi(;e afloat, which he strongly 
desired, and throwing up his Commission, he began his 
career as a practising physician in the City of New Orleans, 
in January, 18-18. 

The reputation which he soon acipiii'ed as a thoughtful, 
earnest, and indefatigable student, gave him eai'l_y admit- 
tance to the Charity Hospital, as one of its attending phy- 
sicians, and in the winter of 18.o9 he established a private 
class, and begun his distinguished career as a teacher of 
medicine. 

The success of himself and colleagues was immediate and 
marked, and in ISoti he, together with Drs. Fenner, Chop- 
pin, Beard, A. & F. Penniston, .T. M. Picton and Howard 
Smith, organized the New Orlkaxs School of Medicine, 
which opened with a class of 76 students. In 1860 the 
class aggregated 270, with the promise of lai'gci- numbers 
thereafter. These hopes were disappointed by the war ; 
but at its close in 1865, the college was re-opened, and at 
the death of Dr. Fenner in 1866, Dr. Brickell was chosen 
the Dean of the school he had helped to found, and of 



which he always was one of the chief oi-naments and sup- 
ports. 

The Chair of olistetrics and Diseases of Women, which 
he so long and lirilliantly filled, gave him a steadily increas- 
ing reputation in the South and West, and at his resigna- 
tion from it, in 1870, he occupied the foremost rank as a 
(irynacologist in his state and section. 

For many years Dr. Brickell was connected with the N. 
O. Medical News and Hospital Gazette, and with the 
Southern Jovrned of Medicine, as editor-in-chief, and exhi- 
bited, during a long career and in an eminent degree, all 
the high qualifications of a successful journalist. 

As a citizen Dr. Brickell's deep interest in and capacity 
for public affairs, have won him the largest esteem and 
confidence of his fellow townsmen, who have more than 
once called him to theii' head in cases of the most trying 
and delicate nature. And in every relation of life, his 
lofty chai-acter, his earnest manhoood, his spotless integ- 
rity, his strong love of justice, his truthfulness, fidelity and 
generous temper have ensured him the regard and friend- 
ship of all classes. 

In stature Br. Brickell is tall and spare ; of a delicate 
frame, and nervous temperament ; but capable of unusual 
enei'gy and endurance. His features are classirally regu- 
lar, almost stern in their faultless outline, but luminous 
with an active and overflowing sensibilit) . A high-bred 
self-repose, a marked dignity of manner, mingled with 
much gi-ace and sweetness, and his surpassing tact, have 
given him a sure passport to general and continued favor. 
Nor is it overpraise to add that nature has adorned him, in 
a conspicuous degree, with those rai'e accomplishments of 
mind and heart which go to make up the enviable en.seni.Me 
of a successful and beloved j)hysician. 

Dr. Brickell has been twice married and has a large 
family. 



PATRICK IRWIN. ESQ. 



This opulent and public-spirited citizen was born in the 
county of Cork, Ireland, in the year 1810. In 1829 he 
emigrated to the United States. In 1832 he came to New 
Orleans, with the progress and prosperity of which he has 
since been largely identified. In 18.53, he was elected an 
Alderman of the city, and, in 18.54, appointed to fill a 
vacancy created in the Loiiisiana Legislature by the death 
of Hon. Preston W. Farrar. 

In 1840, Mr. Irwin built, at his own expense, the Dry- 
ades Street Market, in a part of the city which was then 
little better than a wilderness, but which has since become 
one of its most populous thoroughfares. This market 
alone would l)e an enduring moniunent of his wealth, en- 
terprise and municipal ambition, had he conferred no other 
benefits on the city ; but he has added many to the list, 
which will cause his name often to be repeated with esteem 
and gratitude. 

In 18r)0. he established two lines of omnibuses, one on 
Rampart, the other on Carondelet street, which were kept 
up for the space of from twelve to fifteen years, and were 
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JEWELL'S CRESCENT CITY ILLUSTRATED. 



this wai-m climate, but the soui-ce of a princely income. 
"When city railroads superceded the omnibus, he invested 
capital in them, and became one of their largest stockhold- 
ers. As an evidence of his abundant means, when the city, a 
few years since, proposed to dispose of its entire interest 
in the markets, he offered to purchase it, at a cost of two 
millions, two hundred thousand dollars, but the offer was 
declined. No capitalist, in New Orleans, enjoys more 
unlimited credit. 

Without making any pretensions to religion, Mr. Irwin 
has always, in fact, been one of the most ardent friends 
and supporters of the Roman Catholic Church in the Cre.s- 
cent City, and one of the most liberal contributors to its 
progress. Had it not been for his efficient aid, it is not 
perhaps too much to say, that the elegant church of St. 
John the Baptist, the Parochial School House, the Convent, 
and other edifices connected with the chiu-ch, which occupy 
an entire square on Dryades Street, would never have been 
built. 

Mr. Irwin had not only been a purchaser, to a large 
extent, of real estate in the city, but has built many stores 
and houses on Tchoupitaulas, Natchez and Dryades streets, 
(near the Market,) and is now erecting a building on 
Gravier street, (next to Lum's Carriage Ware Room,) all 
of which edifices have added to the beauty and wealth of 
the city and the convenience of the inhabitants. 

In 1870, he was elected Pi-esident of the Hibernia Bank, 
which situation he still occupies with the reputation of a 
skilful financier and an energetic executive officer. The 
confidence reposed in him is such that he has recently also 
been elected President of the Hibernia Insui-ance Com- 
pany. 



ACHILLE CHIAPELLA. 



]Mr. Achille Chiapella, President of the Union Insurance 
Company, is of Italian descent, his grandfather, Geronimo 
Chiapella, having come here from Geneva towards the mid- 
dle of the last century. Of his two sons, Celestin and 
Stephen Chiapella, the former, after realizing a hand- 
some fortune on his fine Sugar estate in the Pari.sh 
of Plaquemine, went to live in France, where he purchrsed 
in the vicinity of Bordeaux, the celebrated vineyard of 
"Haut Brion, La Mission," better known to every Loiiisi- 
ana (jounnet of the Ante BtUmn period, as the place where 
was produced the supei'b "C C" claret, so called because 
every bottle came here lablcd with the initials of the pro- 
prietor. Stephen Chiapella, the father of the subject of 
this sketch, preferring the life of a sailor, took command 
of a merchant ship plying between New Orleans and 
Eiu'ope, where his son, Achille Chiapella, received his ed- 
ucation. Returning here, after completing his studies, Mr. 
Chiapella embraced the Notarial profession, in which he 
was very sueessful, and which he relinquished to assume 
the Presidency of the Union Insurance Company, which 
office he still continues to fill with much credit to himself 
and great advantage of the shareholders of that well man- 
aged corporation. Besides the above positions Mr. Chia- 
pella was twice elected to the City Council at a period 



when that body was composed of many of our best and 
most intelligent citizens, and in which his knowledge of 
business, sti'iot integrity and a thorough accpiaintancc with 
the wants of the city enabled him to render valuable ser- 
vice to the community. 

He was one of the originators of the Opelousas Railroad 
and acted for a short period as its President. He was also 
the founder and presiding officer of the first Oddfellow'.s 
lodge established below Canal street. 

Mr. Chiapella is yet in the full vigor of manhood, having 
been born in 1813. In addition to his laborious duties as 
President of the Union Insui-ance Company, he also fills 
the position of Director of our most important Banking 
Institution — the Citizen's Bank. 

Affable in his manners, and generous in his hospitality, 
he is a gentleman of cultivated taste, a lover of the Fine 
Arts, and a liberal patron of artists and musicians. When 
the Opera Company was formed, Mr. Chiapella was selected 
as one of the Directors, and was retained in that position 
until 1871, when he declined a reelection. 

If the Union Insurance Company owes much to its ac- 
complished President, the latter has been fortunate in se- 
cui-ing the services of its intelligent and popular Secretary, 
Mr. J. M. Crawford, a son of the late John Crawford, for- 
merly Her B. Majesty's Consul in New Orleans, where he 
left a large circle of attached friends, and gave unlimited 
satisfaction to the mercantile community. 



PROF. G. COLLIGNON. 



Mr. Gustave Colligxon, was born in Rennes, Brit- 
tany, in 1818, and entered the "Conservatoire de Musique" 
— the most celebrated musical school in the world — in 1824. 
His teachei's were : Zimmerman for the piano, and Bar- 
bereau for hormony and composition ; the last named pro- 
fessor, ( whose daughter jSI. Collignon afterwards married,) 
being the author of the best and most complete treatise on 
musical composition ever published. In ls87. Mr. Collig 
non lef the Conservatoire after receiving the first prize in 
his class, and in 1848, he was induced by Mr. Davis, then 
manager of the French Opera, to come to New Orleans, 
where he soon became known as an accomplished musical 
instructor, and when he established in 1857 the Classical 
Musical Society, which has been lately revived, and of 
which M. Collignan is still the leader, and the moving 
spirit. 

In addition to his niunerous pi'ofessional engagements, 
M. Collignan is the Musical Director and Organist of the 
Chui'ch of the Immaculate Conception on Barronne street, 
where many ladies and gentlemen, constituting the elite 
of our musical amateurs may be heard every Sunday. One 
of the greatest attractions of these religious concerts, it 
-is proper to add, is the magnificent voice, faultless style 
and impi'essive singing of Madame Comes, M. ColUgnan's 
daughter and pupil — a young lady who possesses a soprano 
voice, ranging with ease from the lower B flat to E flat 
above the line, and whose musical attainments are worthy 
of the splendid vocal gifts bestowed upon her. 

Having lived in New Orleans for neai'ly a quarter of a 
century, M. Collignan justly considers himself a Louisi- 
anian. As a gentleman and as an artist, there is no one 
who stands higher, or who enjoys a larger share of the es- 
teem of the community 



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•TSEET. 



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>VSS0CI.A.TI01sr. 



CHARTERED MAY 7th, 1869 



C. Cavaroo, President, 

G. Lanattx, Secretary 

DIRECTORS: 
C. Cavaroc, S. Camboo, 

Cha3. DeRuyter, A. Poincy, 
Leon Haas, Jr., J. Egli, 
E. F. Mioton, P. S. Watz, 
W. Agar, L. Queyrouze 

A. Thibaut. 




'WILBIMe,, 



JVByr o-RZEAjvs 



This Insxjeanoe Compant, 
although one of the youngeet, 
is already numbered amoiij; 
the most prosperous and pop 
ular associations of the same 
character in New Orleans. It 
was established in August '69, 
under the auspices of IVIr. C. 
Cavaroc and a number of well 
known capitalists and mer- 
chants, and in December 1870, 
the act of incorporation was 
amended by the adoption of 
the mutual principal, imder 
which no stockholder can par- 
ticipate in the profit of the 
company unless he has effected 
insurance therein and paid 
premiums accordingly, and 
then only in the proportion of 
the earned so paid, and by 
which also the capital of the 
Association was fixed at one 
million of dollars [1,000,000.] 
The last quarterly statement 
of the New Orleans Mutual 
Insurance Association, pub- 
lished Sept. 30th, 1872, shows 
that during that quarter the 
Fire, Marine and River pre- 
miums received amoimted to 
$316,492,08, the net eai-ned 
premiums to .$150,287,90, 
from whicli amoimt, after cje- 
ducting losses, expenses, in- 
terest o n capital paid, etc. , 
there still remained the sum of $70,922,00 as the net piofitsof the 
quarter ending Sept. 30th, 1873. 

The assets of the Association at the same date amounted to $1,093,- 
438,35. The above figures show a most flourishing condition of the 
Association, so ably conducted by ]Mr. C. Cariivoe, with the efficient 
aid of Mr. George Lanaux, the accomplished and highly esteemed 
Secretary of the company. It is proper to add that the masinificeut 
marble front three story building just erected by Mr. H. Howard, 
architect, on the site formerly occupied in Canal Street by the Me- 
chanics' and Traders' Bank, is the property of the New Orleans Mutual 
Insurance Association, whose office occupies the front part of the 
ground floor. The rear part is occupied by the New Orleans National 
Banking Association, and on the first storv is the office of the Crescnt 
City Live Stock Landing and Slaughter House Co., all of which are 
also presided over by Mr. Cavaroo. 



-A-SSO C I A.T I o 3sr. 



Chartered as Bank of New Orleans, 
MAY 14th, 1853. 

Converted into the 

ST. 0. National Banking Association, 

JUir 1st. 1871. 

Capital, S 600,000. 



Chas. Cavahoc. President, 

NCMA ACGCSTIN, Cashit 





DIKECTOES: 


E 


r. Mioton, 


P. S. Wiltz, 


S. 


Cambon, 


Leon Haas. Jr., 


A 


Tbilant, 


E. K. Converse 


J. 


Aldige. 


C. DcEuyter, 



Tnis Bank, foniierly called 
the Bank of New Orleans, 
was about to go into liquida- 
tion at the end of the war, 
when a few of the stockhold- 
ers had the happy idea of call- 
ing Mr. C. Cavaroc to the 
helm. Under his auspices a 
vigorous and altogether suc- 
cessful effort was made to re- 
vive this institution, the result 
of which was soon felt in the 
highly increased value of its 
stock, which in 1868 was 
quoted at $17, and is now 
1872] worth 33.50. Under ils 
new title, the New Orleans 
National Banking Association 
is now organized as a National 
Kank, with a capital of 
.«: 600,000, divided into 20,000 
shiu-es of $30 each. The last 
ofiicial report made according 
to law on the 3d of Oct. 1873, 
shows the large sum of one million one hitndred and ninety-eight 
thousand five himdred and t\\( ntv-eight doll.ars and twenty cents 
[$1,198,528,20], as auioimt of individual deposits at the close "of bus- 
iness on that d.ay, from which an accurate conception of the popular- 
ity and success of this bank may be formed. To Mr. C. Cavaroc, the 
able and energetic President, this flourishing condition of the New Or- 
leans National B.anking Association is mainly due, nor should we foro-et 
to add that he is very efficiently supported by an excellent Board^of 
Directors, and by the gentlemanly cashier of the Association, Col. Nuina 
Augustin, an intelligent merchant who, having left the counting-house 
for the tented-field during the late war, returned to his former^peace- 
ful avocations in 1865, and is now doing good service to the commu- 
nity in his present capacity. The New Orleans Banking Association 
is one of those financial institutions of which any city might feel 
justly proud, and it stands second to none in the estimation of the public. 



JEWELL'S CRESCENT CITY ILLUSTRATED. 



D. K. WHITAKER, ESQ. 



The following embraces some of the principal events, and 
all that are important to be known in the life of this gentle- 
man. He was born at Sharon, County of Norfolk, and 
State of Massachusetts, on the 10th day of April, A. D., 
1801, being the second son and child in a family of ten chil- 
dren, of Rev. .Tonathan and Mrs. Mary Whitaker, his father 
being minister of the Congregational Church and Society of 
that town. He received his education, preparatory to en- 
tering Cambridge College, first at home, from his father (a 
son of Harvard of the class of 1798 ; next at Bradford 
academy, on the Merrimac River — place of nativity of his 
mothei-) ; subsequently at Derby academy, Hingham, then 
under the direction of his uncle, Rev. Daniel Kimball, also 
a graduate of Harvard College, and for some time its Latin 
Tutor, after whom he received his bapti.smal name) ; and, 
finally, at Andrew Phillips' academy. Upon leaving the 
last named institution, where he spent three years, he 
delivered, at the anniversary exhibition, by appointment 
of the principal, the Latin Salutatory Oration, the fii'st time 
siich an honor had ever been conferred on any pujiil of that 
seminary 

At sixteen years of age he entered Cambridge College, 
where he received the degree of Bachelor of Arts in 18*20, 
and that of Master in 18'23. His favorite studies, in col- 
lege, were the Latin and Greek Languages, Moral and 
Intellectual Philosophy, Politics, Logic, Rhetoric, and the 
Belles Lettres, in all which he is said to have excelled. In 
1819 he obtained a Boylston Gold Medal for a dissertation 
on " The Literaiy Character of Dr. Samuel Johnson," for 
which all the undei'graduates of the four classes, as well as 
resident graduates, were at liberty to contend ; and, in 
1820, a Bowdoin Gold Medal for Oratory, open for compe- 
tition to undergraduates and the graduate class. John 
Quincy Adams and Daniel Webster were among the judges 
who awarded the latter prize. 

Inheriting a partiality for the clerical profession lioth 
from his paternal and maternal ancestors, he, shortly after 
leaving the university, placed himself under the theological 
tuition of the Rev. Dr. Richmond, an eminent clergyman of 
Dorchester (in the environs of Boston), and upon the com- 
pletion of his studies, having been pronounced moi'ally and 
intellectually fitted for the saci-ed office, I'eceived, from the 
Bridgewater A.ssociation of Divines, a license to preach the 
Gospel. 

About this time he suffered severely from the condition 
of his health, which had been frail from his childhood. He 
had had alaiming attacks of illness while prosecuting his 
studies both at Andover and Cambridge, which led to his 
temporary abandonment of them ; and, upon his recovery 
on this occasion, his family physician and friends recom- 
mended, as indispensable to the complete establishment of 
his health, his temporary, if not pei'inanent, removal to a 
Southern and more genial climate. His parents consenting 
this course was adopted ; and towards the close of the year 
1823, he, in company with his venerable father who had 
recently dissolved his pastoral connection with his chuieh 
and his congregation in New Bedford, Massachusetts, (pre- 



viously presided over by the celebrated Dr. Samuel West, 
and subsequently by the equally celebrated Dr. Orville 
Dewey), left that place for the South. He had previously 
elaborately x^repared a few discourses with a view to make 
a favorable impression on any audience he might be 
called on to address, and .some of which he soon had 
occasion to deliver to large audiences in New York City, 
in Philadelphia, Penn ; in Wa.shington, D. C. ; Baltimore, 
Md. ; Richmond and Petersburg, Va. ; Raleigh and Fay- 
etteville, N. C. ; Cheraw, Camden and Charleston, S. C, and 
Savannah, Milledgeville and Augusta, Ga. These discourses 
were said to be very eloquent and effective, and, as a youth- 
ful preacher, he started on his career with no inconsid- 
erable reputation. While in Charleston, S. C, he was 
invited by the Rev. Dr. Gilman to supply his pulpit during 
the Summer months on the occasion of his exit North, and 
the congregation of that eminent divine and scholar paid 
him the compliment of publishing two of his sermons. At 
the beautiful town of Augusta he succeeded in organizing 
a society, of which he was invited to take the charge, and, 
for his accommodation, a neat and commodious church 
edifice was erected. There he continiied to officiate for 
nearly a year, when his health, in consequence of his con- 
stant and novel labors, was completely broken down. He 
now, as a measure of duty and prudence, determined to 
abandon the ministry altogether. 

Removing to South Carolina where his parents and 
family had now arrived and settled themselves, he re- 
mained with them till his health was recuperated. He 
shoi'tly afterwards mairied a lady residing in St. Paul's 
Parish, Comton District, of that State, widow of an eminent 
physician and planter, and devoted himself for about ten 
years to the culture of the great staples of the South— rice 
and cotton. The daily exercise his new avocation required 
him to take in the open air, proved highly beneficial to his 
health, while the associations he foimed with educated 
planters, presented to him an entirely new and favorable 
phase of Southern society. Having been invited to become 
a member of the State Agricultural Society of South Caro- 
lina, he delivei-ed by appointment before that body, an 
anniversary discourse on "The claims of Agriculture to be 
regarded as a distinct Science," which was published by 
the society and republi.shed in "the iSovthern AgricuUvrist," 
edited by Dr. Bachman, our great Southern Natui'alist. 
The subject of making the science of agriculture a distinct 
branch of education for Southern young gentlemen was 
much discu.ssed about that time, and the plan of making it 
a pai't of the college curi'iculum was actually adopted by 
the States of South Carolina and Georgia. 

The quiet and monotonous pu-rsuits of a country life were 
not, however, altogether adapted to the peculiar tastes of 
the subject of this notice. He desired to be an active par- 
ticipator in more exciting scenes. He had determined, for 
the reasons already assigned, not to resume the ministerial 
pi'ofession, but the law had its attractions, and, as his 
health was now established, he had amjile time and oppor- 
tunities for the purpose, he resolved to enter upon its 
study ; and placing himself under the direction of James 
L. Petigru, Esq., the leading lawyer of South Carolina, he 



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prepared himself for the bar, in due time passed a success- 
ful examination before the judges of the Supreme Court, 
and was admitted to practice in the Courts of Law and 
Equity in South Carolina. He had scarcely opened a law 
oiRce in Charleston when he was solicited by the Hon. 
John Lyde Wilson, ex-Governor of the State, and an emi- 
nent practitioner at the Charleston bar, to enter into 
co-partnership with him. Governor Wilson placed in his 
hands the trial of several important causes, both in the 
lower- and higher courts, in which he was successful. 

In 1 832, he was appointed Chairman of the Committee of 
the citizens of St. Paul's Parish (consisting chiefly of plan- 
ters,) to draft a series of resolutions on the subject of Nul- 
lification, which were unanimously adopted. Those reso- 
lutions he supported in a speech which was published in 
the Charleston Mercury. He spoke occasionally at public 
meetings, and, in the midst of the (nisis, delivered, by in- 
vitation, the Fourth of .July Oration liefofe the " 76 Asso- 
ciation " of Charleston, availing himself of the occasion to 
express the views he entertained on the important ques- 
tions of the day. 

He was a member of " the Literary and Philosophical 
Society of South Carolina," of which the Hon. .Joel R. 
Poinsett was, at that time, President, composed of the most 
distinguished scholars of all professions in Charleston, a 
city second to none other in America for its high literary 
tone. On one occasion he had the honor to be appointed 
the anniversary orator of this association, and selected for 
his subject, " The Habits, Customs, Genius, and Languages 
of the Indian Tribes of North America." 

Under the auspices of this learned body, in the year 
1835, he issued proposals for the publication of a Southern 
monthly magazine at Charleston, S. C. The proposition 
was received very favorably throughout the whole South. 
After the demise of the old Southern Review, brilliantly 
edited, first by the Messrs. Elliott (father and son), and 
subsequently by the celebrated Hugh S. Legare ; some 
such medium for communicating to the Southern public the 
opinions of distinguished Southern writers on literary 
tojiics was deemed highly desirable. This woi-k, under the 
editorial conduct of Mr. Whitaker, was for some years well 
sustained by himself and the same corps of writers. 

A work of a graver character than the monthly joiu'ual 
just referred to, was now demanded by the necessities of 
the times, in which the prominent interests of the country, 
political as well as literary, should be fully and elaborately 
discussed, with a view to the creation of a sound public 
sentiment, at the instance, once more, and upon the recom- 
mendation of " The Literary and Philosophical Society of 
South Carolina," Mr. Whitaker Lssued proposals, in 184(1, 
for the publication of the " Southern QiMrlerli/ lleriiir." 
It was thought best, this time, to transfer the place of pub- 
lication from Charleston to New Orleans, as likely to com- 
mand a more extensive circulation throughout the whole 
South and Southwest. By the energy of Mr. Whitaker, a 
subscription list amounting to $16,000 was procured, and 
the publication was commenced in this city in January of 
the following year. 

Its contributors were numeroiLS, embracing the 



ablest writers and scholars in the Southern States. After 
conducting it for a series of years with marked ability Mi'. 
Whitaker sold the Revieio to a company of gentlemen, who 
were aware of the difficulties in which he was involved V)y 
the heavy outlay he had incurred at the beginning of the 
enterprise and afterwards. The proceeds enabled him to 
meet honorably all the liabilities occasioned by the publi- 
cation of the work, which then passed into the hands of 
other able editors who continued it for twenty-one years 
from the date of its announcement up to the time of the 
breaking out of the late war. It was very infliiential, and 
continued to maintain a I'eputation fully equal to that of 
any quarterly published either in the United States or in 
Great Britain. 

Having had the misfortune to lose his wife, Mr. Whita- 
ker, in 1848, foi'med a matrimonial alliance with Mrs. M. 
S. Miller, of the High Hills of Santoe, South Carolina, 
widow of the Hon. John Miller, advocate of Edinburgh, 
Scotland, and subsequently Queen's Attorney General for 
the British West Indies, a lady equally celebrated for her 
personal and literary accomplishments, and by whom he 
has had six children, a son and four daughters, of whom 
only two daughters survive, having lost their son, a pro- 
mising child of five years on a visit of a year spent in the 
bleak latitude of Canada. Of two sons by his former wife, 
one survives, who now resides on his own homestead near 
Greenville, S. C. 

Diu'ing the administration of Mr. Buchanan, Mr. Whit- 
taker held an official po.sition undei' the United States Gov- 
ernment, until the secession of South Carolina, when 
he removed to Richmond, where through the kind instru- 
mentality of the Hon. Alexander H. Stephens, he obtained 
a post first in the General Post-office Department of the 
Confederate Government, and subsequently in the War 
Office. He left Richmond on the day of its evacuation by 
the Confederate troops, came to New Orleans early in Jan- 
uary, 1 866, was for a year and a half, associate editor of 
the New Orleans 7'iines, and has since been engaged in va- 
lious literaiy avocations. 

The writer of this .sketch, who is intimately acquainted 
with Mr. Whitaker's literaiy character and entire career, 
feels fully authorized to say in conclusion, that, as a writer, 
he is distinguished by a style critically correct, and in 
argumentative powers is rarely surpassed. A total absence 
of aff'ectation assists in establishing the cogency of his 
I'easoning and the logical accuracy of his deductions. Few 
care to measure swords with him in a fairly conducted 
argument. His blows fall with persevering force, and, 
even when diffuse, as he sometimes is, he seldom fails in 
establishing any jjoint for which he contends. 
■ A sketch of Mr. Whitaker was written many years since 
by Edgar A. Poe, and published in a periodical edited by 
that great American poet, in which he makes the following 
assertion : " Mr. Whitaker is one of the best essayists in 
North America, and stands in the foremost rank of elegant 
writers." His habits are those of a man devoted to letters, 
and the want of a publishing house at the South, and his 
own modesty, though operating against his celebiity, have 
not been sufficient impediments to seriouslv cloud his well 
earned reputation. 



JEWELL'S CRESCENT CITY ILLUSTRATED. 




ElBlllHCl 01' 0, H, ilOeOMB, 1S@, 



Coi'iicr of K>~i)lanado iun\ St. C'lu\ide Sts., New Oi-lcaiis. 



JEWELL'S CRESCENT CITY ILLUSTRATED. 



THE SAINT LOUIS HOTEL. 



Thirty-seven years ago, the spot where now stands the 
Saint Louis was selected for the purpose of building a 
hotel, on a scale commensurate with the growing import- 
ance of New Orleans. At that time the only hotels in the 
city were the Stranger's Hotel, kept by Marty, and the 
Orleans Hotel, kept by the beautiful Mrs. Page, both house? 
being still used for the same purpose on Chartres street. 
The space now occupied by the St. Louis Hotel and the 
surrounding structures, was, thirty-seven years ago, a con- 
glomeration of stores, shops, and private dwellings. On 
the side fronting St. Louis street, where the rotunda now 
stands, was the residence and pharmacy of Mr. Germain 
Ducatel, flanked by the residences an i offices of Dr. Fabre 
Fourciszy, a collecting agent and broker ; Antoine Abat, 
the well-known capitalist and banker ; Leroy, an individ- 
ual so named because he sold the then celebrated patent 
medicine known as Leroy's specific ; a barber's saloon, and 
a cooper's shop. An importer of foreign goods named Bel- 
laoger, occupied the corner of Royal and St. Loiiis streets, 
while at the corner of Chartres and St. Louis streets stood 
Hewlett's Exchange, consisting of a coffee house and auc- 
tion mart, with billiard tables and a " cock pit " in the 
real-. On the opposite of Chartres street were the original 
ice hou.se (La Glaci(5re), now located on Bienville street, 
and the residence of Judah Touro. On Royal street, going 
towards Toulouse, were the well-known stores of Larue 
and Seignouret. On the northeast corner of Royal and St. 
Louis stood the drug store of Grand Champs, now kept by 
Dr. DeCasteluan, which enjoys the distinction of being the 
oldest establishment of the kind in the city, having pre- 
served its well-earned reputation for over sixty years. Di- 
agonally across the street was, above, the residence of Mr. 
Le Carpentier, the grandfather of Paul Morphy, the great 
chess player, and underneath was the dwelling of Mr. 
Brumage. Over the way, at the northwest corner, stood 
the fashionable jewelry store of Hyde & Goodrich, which 
still maintains its place in the front rank undei' its title of 
A. B. Griswold, on the corner of Canal and Royal streets. 
Among the well known citizens residing around the hotel 
were D. Ambrosio, Lucien Carriere, Mioton and Girod, 
the first Mayor of New Orleans, and the founder of the 
Girod Asylum, who kept an importer's store on the north- 
west corner of St. Louis and Chartres streets. The Im- 
provement Bank, by whom the old St. Louis Hotel was 
built, was presided over by Judge Jean Francois Canonge, 
and numbered the late Pierre Soule among its directors. 
The edifice was commenced by Mr. Depouilly, a distin- 
guished architect still living; in 1836, and at about the 
same time the stately building in the rear of the hotel on 
Toulouse street, subsequently occupied for many years by 
the Citizen's Bank, was also erected by the Improvement 
Bank for its own use. The total cost of the hotel, and the 
annexed buildings, was nearly a million and a half of dol- 
lars. It was at first contemplated to take up the entire 
block, but the commercial crisis of 1837 interfered with the 
plan, and in 1841 the whole structure, which was even 
more stately than the present one, was accidentally des- 
troyed by fire. The nresent edifice soon rose from the 



ashes of its predecessor, and under the skilful management 
of the well known James Hewlett, the St. Louis Hotel be- 
came the most celebrated house of entertainment in the 
South. One of the most pleasing reminiscences of the 
palmy days of the St. Louis Hotel is the annual series of 
" Bals de Societe," or Subscription Balls, that took place 
every Wintei' in its magnificent ball room, then fronting 
St. Louis street. Nowhere else could a better idea of 
Creole beauty and elegance be realized so well as in those 
delightful gatherings, in which none but the representa- 
tives of the iKost refined circles of our city were invited to 
participate, although a generous welcome was also given to 
visitors from the other States, and to distinguished for- 
eigners. Some of the most pleasing recollections of fonner 
days are identified with the gay scenes of which the St. 
Louis ball room was the theatre between twenty and thii-ty 
years ago. Particularly vivid among the sui'\'ivors of that 
period is the remembrance of a magnificent " Bal Traveste" 
given in the Winter of 1842 — '4;i, and above all of the 
splendid entertainment gotten up the same Winter in 
honor of Henry Clay's visit, by his New Orleans friends 
and admirers. The subscription price was one hundred 
dollars, and there were two hundi'ed subscribers — the ball 
and supper costing twenty thousand dollars, an enormous 
sum for that period. Over six hundred ladies and gentle- 
men sat down to a feast of regal magnificence in the 
spacious dining hall of the hotel where the famed orchestra 
of the French Opera discoursed sweet music, and a most 
felicitous and graceful tribute was paid by the " old man 
eloquent " to the ladies of New Orleans, " beautiful, accom- 
plished, and patriotic." This was the only time the De- 
mosthenes of the American Senate ever spoke in public in 
Louisiana. Mr. Mioton, the present able and popular 
manager of the St. Louis Hotel, has just inaugurated a 
series of subscription balls, under the patronage and dii'ec- 
tion of the ladies of this city, which, judging from the siic- 
cess with which the first one was attended cannot fail to 
revive the pristine terpsichorean glories of the house. The 
Convention of 1843 to form a new State Constitution, and 
whit'h embraced almost every man of talent and influem/e 
in Louisiana, such as John R. Grymes, Soule, Roselius, 
Mazureau, Roman, Downs, Conrad, .Mangny, Brent, Eustis, 
and other distinguished men was held in the old St. Louis 
ball I'oom. 

The St. Louis Exchange, under the management of the 
universally popular Alvarez, and his genial assistant, San- 
tini, was, for a long period, the favorite resort of all the 
leading politicians, planters, and merchants of the city and 
State. From twelve o'clock, meridian, till three in the 
afternoon the splendid rotunda was occupied by the auc- 
tioneers, whose resounding appeals in the English, French, 
and Spanish languages made it a modern counterpart of 
the Tower of Babel. This I'otunda, with its beautiful fres- 
coes (now used as a restaurant, attached to the hotel.) 
served the purposes of a Chamber of Commerce, Board of 
Brokers, and Cotton Exchange. Meetings for political, 
charitable, oi' patriotic purposes were frequently held there, 
as were also the Conventions of the Old Whig and Demo- 
cratic parties. 



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More than a year ago, Mr. E. F. Mioton, aided by a few 
othei- piitorprisiug and public spirited citizens of the Sec- 
ond and Third Districts of New Orleans, succeeded, after 
much labor and trouble, in organizing a joint stock com- 
pany for the purpose of piirchasing, renovating, and re- 
opening of the St. Loviis Hotel on a scale consummate with 
the present wants of the community. Of the association 
Mr. Mioton was made the President, and Messrs. A. Chaf- 
fraix, Charles Cavaroc, M. Puig, Charles Lafitte, and A. 
Rochereau, were elected directors. The remodelling and 
improvements of the building were made by Mr. A. Suari, 
architect, under the supervision of Mr. L. U. Pilie, late 
City Surveyor. A magnificent verandah, new in pattern, 
elegant and unique in design and consisting of a series of 
arches supported by a colonade of Corinthian pilasters 
ornamented in the highest style of art now surrounds the 
biiilding on every side, with the exception of the grand en- 
trance on St. Louis street, where the fine marble perystile 
is covered with a terrace or balcony, above which a superb 
illuminated clock has been placed. The entire verandah 
is lighted at night by a great number of beautifully orna- 
mented lamps, and the whole structure now presents a 
most beautiful and imposing appearance. Elaborate as 
the improvement has been in the outside, equal labor and 
skill has been brought into requisition inside to render the 
hotel one of the most commodioiis and comfortable in the 
world. There are 237 sleeping rooms besides the oiEees, 
parlors, drawing and reception rooms, dining halls and 
parlor suits on the first floor, affording ample accommoda- 
tion for five or six hundred guests. The papering, carpet- 
ing, and furnishing of these rooms and parlors is of the 
best modern style and pattern. The hotel is kept on the 
European and American style combined, thei'e being a 
restaurant where meals are furnished to the guests of the 
liotel as well as to the public generally, at fixed prices, and 
a magnificent dining room for the exclusive iise of the 
boarders who prefer to live in the American style. This 
dining room, which is brilliantly lighted by eleven splendid 
chandeliers, is also used as a-ball room in connection with 
thr spai-ious and magnificently fiu-nished parlor on Royal 
street. The hotel kitchen is 40 feet by 00, is probably the 
lai-gest and best appointed in America; the ranges, cook- 
ing, and I'oasting apjiaratus, ovens, etc., being of the best 
and most modern patterns, and the arrangements for venti- 
lation, and the removal of every offensive smell being alto- 
gether perfect. On the Chartres street side are numeroiis 
parlors, reception rooms, a nursery, dining room, a gentle- 
men's reading and smoking room, with a small bar and 
lunch room attached. There are thirty bath rooms in the 
main building, and it is contemplated to convert the old 
Bank building, on Toulouse street, into a Roman <tqin:iriu)ii, 
or swimming i)atli. 

'J'he hotel is divided by iron sliding doors into three dis- 
tinct fire-proof compartments, and the iron tanks on the 
top of the building contain :{0,000 gallons of water, so that 
in case of a fire, the means of putting it out would be 
instantaneous. One of the most pleasing featru-es of the 
St. Louis is th(; fact that owing to the great space covered 
bv the building, the bed rooms are either on the first or sce- 



ond floor, thereby saving the fatigue and inconvenience of 
going up a great many flights of steps. 

The hotel is now under the management of Mr. E. F. 
Mioton, the energetic President of the St. Louis Hotel 
Association, aided by able and coui'teous assistants ; and 
since he took charge of the house it has become a favorite 
and fashionable resort for the planters and their families, 
a'* well as for that already large and daily enlarging class 
of persons who prefer the comfort of a well kept hotel to 
the trouble and expense of house-keeping. 



REV. WILLLVM T. LEACOCK, D. D 



This eminent divine was born at Barbadoes, A. D. 
1800, commencing life with the day dawn of the present 
eventful century. He went to England in the year 1818, 
and received his education at the renowned University of 
Oxford. He was ordained in 1824, by the Right Rev. Dr. 
Howley, Lord Bishop of London. In 1825, he went to 
Jamaica, where, for the space of ten years, he labored as a 
popular and successful clergyman of the Protestant Episco- 
pal Chiu'ch. In 1835, in consequence of the state of his 
health, which had been effected by the unpropitious cli- 
mate of the West Indies, he removed to the state of Ken- 
tucky in this country, and subseqiiently became Rector of 
Williamsport Church in Tennessee, in the diocese of the 
Reverend iBishop Otey. He thence removed to Natchez, 
Missisippi, and, m 1852, became Rector of Christ Church 
in this city, over which, in that capacity, he has since pre- 
sided. He is assisted by the very estimable, Rev. Campbell 
Fair. 

The family of Dr. Leacok, consists of his wife and three 
children, two daughters and one son, Rev. William Leacok, 
of the Diocese of California. He lost one son by yellow 
fever. 

The Rector of Christ Church is physically of large pro- 
portions and unusual height, reaching probably to fully six 
feet. His aspect is veneralile and commanding, his man- 
ner fartherly, affectionate and guileless, his style logical, 
terse and suggestive. His sennons contain a happy 
combination of the intellectual and the pathetic, appealing, 
in adequate projioi-tions, both to the head and to the heart. 
He is a man of large experience and shining virtues, whose 
influence is deeply felt in the circles in which he moves. 
As a clergyman, his jirineiples are both liberal and evan- 
gelical. 



ANNiNciATioN Squ.vre. — This is situated on the four 
squares bounded by Annunciation, Orang(>, Chippewa and 
Race streets. It is protected by a substantial iron fence, 
and has been otherwise partially improved. St. Michael's 
Church (Catholic) overlooks the square from the east. 
Fronting upon the squai'o ai-e several elegant residences 
surrounded by choice varied and luxuriant shrubbery. At 
at cost of a few thousand dollars the square itself might be 
converted into a miniature fore.st if desirable. 



JEWELL'S CRESCEISTT CITY ILLUSTRATED 




MAYOR JOHN T. MONROE. 



The capture of New Orleans in April 1862, by Farragut 
and Butler, brought the name of Mayor Monroe before the 
country, and the people, both of the United States and the 
then Confederate States. Nor was this prominency con- 
fin d to the belligerent powers. It pei-vaded all British 
journalism, and even made its way into Parliament. Mayor 
Monroe's refusal to surrender the city, although under the 
guns of the F( deral fleet, his subsequent refiisal to lower 
the Confedera' e flag floating from the City Hall after the 
enemy was in full possession, resulted in his deposition 
fi-om the Mayoi'alty (when near the expiration of his term) 
by General Butler, and his incarceration in Fort St. 
Philip, and afterward in Fort Pickens. Refusing to 
take the new oath of allegiance imposed by the Federal 
Government he endured, until the siunmer of the succeeding 
year, all the rigors of prison life, consigned at one time to 
solitary confinement and doomed at another time to wear 
ball and chain. Regarded at last as one possessed of a 
spirit untameable by any process known to jailors, he was 
released on condition that he should immediately go within 
the lines of the Confederates. This he did, going first to 
Mobile and from thence to Richmond, where he was re- 
ceived by Mr. Davis with unusual cordiality and finally 
fixing his residence in the former city, where he was when 
captured by General Canby. Retm'ning to New Orleans 
after the close of the war, Mr. Monroe was arrested and 
kept under surveillance for several months. No reason 
was assigned by the Federal Provost Marshal for his extra- 
ordinary proceeding. Shortly after the reorganization of 
Louisiana under what is commonly known as the Johnso- 
nian policy, Mr. Monroe was re-elected Mayor of New 
Orleans. He took hi i ^ eat in March 1866, and was deposed 
by General Sheridan under the Reconstruction Act of 
Congress, the pretext being complicity in the celebrated 
riot of the 30th of July of the same year. 



The second deposition of Mayor Monroe took place in 
March 1867, after much e.r, parte testimony taken against 
him at the instance of General Sheridan. This act was 
followed by the appointment of a Radical Mayor, and an 
Americo-African Common Council, the genesis of the hii- 
miliation and misrule which has since befallen Louisiana. 
In April following, Mr. Monroe visited Washington and 
and was kindly and sympathetically received by President 
Johnson and Attorney-General Stanbury. Nor did he 
leave the capital until his restoration was clearly inthnated 
and the removal of General Sheridan made certain. There 
can be no doubt that the deposed Mayor would again have 
been seated but for the second batch of Reconstruc- 
tion measures which overthrew the opinion of the Attor- 
ney-General defining and limiting the provisions of the 
first Act. 

John T. Monroe, a blood relation of President Mon- 
roe, was born in Dinwiddie County, Va., and was car- 
ried to Missouri when quite young. His father, Daniel 
Monroe, represented at an early period the latter State in 
Congress. Coming to New Orleans before his majority, 
the futiu'e Mayor learned the business of a stevedore, 
which made him familiar with the men who form and con- 
trol what is populai'ly known as the " masses." Over the 
working classes he possessed a power which was not broken 
at any time. He was of the people and with the people, 
and they looked upon him as their representative and 
champion. Thej' made him an Assistant-Alderman and 
the lower Board seated him as its President. He served 
as Assistant-Recorder and was twice elected Mayor. His 
mind was eminently practical, his integrity unquestiona- 
ble, and his proverbial fearlessness, the sequence of the 
practicability and integrity of character. He knew men 
so well that it was difficult to impose upon him, and he 
discharged his duties with a conscientiousness which intule 
him disregard clamor or criticism. Mr. Monroe removed 
to Savannah, Ga., and died there in February 1871, when 
about forty-eight years of age. The rigors of imprison- 
ment and of official vicissitudes told severely upon him. 
He looked old while yet in his prime of years. He had 
ascended the Masonic ladder to its topmost round, and 
hence was buried in Savannah with distinguished Masonic 
honors. The year succeeding his death his remains were 
brought to New Orleans, where they were deposited in the 
family tomb by his Masonic brethren beside the bodj' of 
his favorite son. When this son lay upon his deathbed, 
the father was a prisoner in Fort St. Philip. General 
Butler sent word that if the Mayor would take the new 
oath of allegiance he might come to the city and see his 
dying child. The offer was pi'omptly and firmly declined, 
and father and son never met in life. Of such Roman 
mettle was the subject of this brief biographical sketch. 



Douglas Square. — This is bounded by Washington, St. 
George, Second and Freret streets, and was inclosed in 186-1. 
It is notable for an irregular and luxuriant growth of 
indigenous and tropical trees, shrubs, flowers and grasses, 
and for its numerous birds of bright plumage. 



JEWELL'S CRESCENT CITY ILLUSTRATED. 



ALFRED HENNEN, ESQ, 



This truly estimable and learned jurist, who has recently 
passed off the stage of life, at the advanced age of eighty- 
iive years, is deserving of the highest tribute of respect 
that can be paid to his memory by the living generation. 
His name is a connecting link between two centuries, of 
which the eighteenth claimed his boyhood, and the nine- 
teenth his youth, manhood and old age. Around both 
epochs his numerous virtues have shed an undying charm. 
Louisiana will never foi'get one who was a denizen of her 
territory five years before she became a State, and who, 
through all the mutations of politics, was an unflinching 
advocate of her sovereignty and her honor. New Orleans, 
with whose interests his own were identified, from the time 
it was a village till it became the great and tlourishiug cit}' 
it now is, where he acquired solid and enduring fame and 
an ample fortune, in his capacity of an able advocate and 
a learned counsellor, has equal cause to remember the 
venerable sage, who, by his wisdom, energy and lofty ex- 
ample, has shed lustre on her history. 

This distinguished personage was born in Maryland, A. 
D. 1786. He pursued his collegiate course of studies at 
Yale College, where he graduated with distinction in the 
twentieth year of his age. Piously trained by excellent 
parents, the religious element of his nature was fully de- 
veloped at the early age of sixteen years, when he became, 
by open profession, a member of the Presbyterian Church, 
to which he was ardently attached and of which he was a 
Ruling Elder for nearly half a century, having been raised 
to that influential position by regular ordination in the 
year 1828, according to the forms of that chui'ch. "His 
name," says Dr. Palmer, in the eloquent discourse of that 
distinguished divine, delivered on the occasion of his death, 
" heads the list of the original twenty-four, who. in the 
month of November, 1823, were organized, according to 
OTir ecclesiastical canons, into the First Presbvterian Church 
of New Orleans." 

In his youth he was inclined to adopt the luinisti-y as 
his profession, but subsequently shrank from its lofty re- 
sj)onsiV)ilities, and, on his graduation, detennined on the 
study of the law, which he commenced and pi-osecuted for 
a couple of years at New Haven under the direction of 
Judge Chauncey. 

To the nol)le pi'ofession he adopted he was always pas- 
sionately devoted, especially to the Department of the Civil 
Law, emphatically the law of Louisiana, the fountain, as 
well as crown, of the (Jommon Law of England. It would 
bo invidious to compare him with other great civil law 
lawyers with whom the New Orleans bar has been gi'ac;ed 
from timt! immemorial. Suffice it to say, that he was among 
the most prominent of its expounders and among the most 
successful of its ])ractitiunors. To great legal lore he 
added a taste for lit(!rature, which served to elevate the 
tone of his profession. He had no mean acquaintance 
with the Oriental tongues, especially the Hebrew. To 
great dignity i)f mannei's he added a grace and afrability 
that were truly attractive; and to very decided views a 
spirit of conciliation, that secured resi)ect and prompted 
allection. Few individuals who have adorned the miuiici- 



pal, ecclesiastical, and legal annals of the Cresent City, 
have passed off the stage with a nobler and more stainless 
record than the late venerable Alfred Hennen. 

For about twenty years he was an able and efhcient 
Director of the old Bank of Louisiana, during its days of 
prosperity. 

JAMES FRERET, ESQ 



James Freret, Esq., descended, on the mother's side, 
from the Chevalier D'Arensbourg, of Swedish stock, and, 
on the paternal, from the Frerets, of England, belongs to 
one of the oldest families in Louisiana. His maternal an- 
cestor, the Chevalier D'Arensbourg, emigrated to this coun- 
try in the early part of the last centiu-y, and was invested 
with the govei'nment of the " German coast." According 
to Gayarre, about 1721, three years after the foundation of 
the city. His name aoDcars in the rostei' of the gariison, 
as Captain, in 174(1. 

His pateinal gi'andfather, James Freret, emigrated fi-om 
England some time previous to 1790. It is worthy of 
mention that he stai'ted the first cotton press ever used in 
this city, (a hand-power press,) on Royal street, in the first 
decade of the present century. His example was shortly 
after followed by his brother-in-law, V. Rillieux, who also 
had a. hydi-aulic hide press. 

The subject of this notice was boi-n at New Oi-leans, 
April 26, 1838. He commenced his studies as an architect, 
the profession for which he had an early predilection, in 
1856, at the age of eighteen years, remaining for a few 
months in the sash factory of Mr. George Purves, then in 
the office of that architect, who was then ei'ecting the Fii-st 
Presbyterian Chui'ch. One year afterwards, he entered 
the office of W. A. Freret, Esq., one of our most highly 
esteemed architec-ts, where he remained till the month of 
June, 1860, during which he drew the plans for the Touro 
Alms House, unfoi'tunately consumed by fire before the 
edifice was conqileted ; the celebi'ated Moresque Building, 
corner of Camp and Poydras streets, thiee iron buildings 
on Canal street, &c., &c. 

In June, 1860, Mr. Freret visited Europe with a view to 
perfect himself in his profe.ssion, where, for the space of 
thirteen months, he prosecuted with diligence the course 
of studies prescribed by L'JbJcole cles Beaux Arts. He then 
travelled in Italy, Switzerland, France and England, 
sketching notable buildings. 

In August, 1 SOii, he returned home thi'ough the blockade 
at Charleston, S. ('., entered the engineer service of the 
Confederate States Army ; was disabled at Port Hudson ; 
began business again after the war ; com]ileted the Mo- 
resque Buildings; designed the first Fair buildings, the 
Louisiana Savings Bank : the lour-stdry building at the 
corner of Common and Magazine street.s, tlie n('w office 
(shortly to be built) for the New Orleans Gas Light Company; 
also, the new Spring Hill College, the extension of the Con- 
vent of Visitation, and the new front of the Cathedral, at 
Mobile, Ala. 

Mr. Freret is highly esteemed by his brother architects, 
and his fellow citizens, for his skill in his profession, and 
for the honor and integrity wliicli have al\va\ s marked his 
career in life. 



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THE KNIGHTS OF MOMUS. 



This is a new organization, liaVing made its initial ap- 
pearance on New Year's eve, last. 

When it became known towards the end of the yeai' 
1872 that another organization was in process of being 
formed, and that the night of December 31st would witness 
its first ajjpearance, the curiosity which has always attend- 
ed such affairs was at once aroused. 

In a community where the spectacular appetite is so 
strong, and yet so epicurean, and where such gorgeous 
and elaborate efforts have already been successfully made, 
it was certainly no slight undei-taldng in the Knights of 
Momus to enter the arena, and promise an event worthy 
of addition to the memories of past pageants, and of com- 
pai'ison with those which are to follow. 

Yet all this was confidently promised, and, as a conse- 
quence, New Orleans tiu-ned out in force, and the known 
i-oute of he j)rocession was, at an early lioui-, lined with 
expectant crowds. 

Need we say to any true lover of traditions that no 
hapi^ier selection of a subject could have been made than 
that which distinguished this event ? In that dim age 
which the masters of I'omance and poetry ha\-e peopled 
with grand figures, and to the beautifying of whii-h the 
immortal Scott has lent bis genius, are to be found the 
most majestic subjects of pageantry. The stark old days of 
Richard Cceur de Leon and of Godfi'ey de Bouillon, and 
the countless other personages who animate our legencls 
and our songs, make a rich field from which to cull the 
very fairest flowers of pageantry, and in tliis field our 
knights have roamed with unhindered feet, and culled a 
lavish wealth of beauties for oiu- enjojnnent. 

The sireless deity of raillery, who, in the dim old days 
of mirth, make gods the victims of his ridicule, and but 
hardly spared the matchless Aphrodite, daughter of the 
Foam, descends through the generous shadows of the cen- 
turies with a kindlier spirit, with a touch whose magic 
only beautifies, and the grim old motto " duni vivlmus 
vfvamus" takes a better significance throug-h the inter j)re- 
tation which his latter-day votaries have given it, and 
gives us the right to welcome his advent with every sin- 
cerity and pleasru-e. 

THE PKOCESSION" 

Was of the gorgeous fashion peculiar to our festival 
pageants, and represented the principle figures in the 
grand tableau of the " Talisman." 

First came 

MOMUS — 1873. 

On either side of him ride his attendant knights, and so, 
with all appropriate suiToundings, the pageant of Momus 
comes into full view, hemmed in by the rippling sea of 
eager faces, and shimmering in the radiance of a thousand 
lights. 

Then came the English Division headed by Devereux, 
the Lord of Giesland, bearing the standard of the Plan- 
tagenets. The Hermit of Engaddi and the Earl of Salis- 
bury follow. 

Here is Blondel, the faithful troubadour, whom Richard 



loved, and who, in the dark days when wily John turned 
traitor, and friends forgot their benefactor, showed that 
the devotion of the minstrel was a sweeter thing than the 
fearful friendship of the wanior. He holds the lyre which 
many a time soothed the fierce king's wayward heart, and 
near him sit Iloise and Calistra, Maids of Honor to the 
Queen. 

Upon the throne reclines 

Rli'HAKl) (CEL'K DE LEON 

beneath a royal conopy, on which blaze the leopards and 
the crown of England. He never greatly loved the glory 
of the court, nor the sweet fiavors of ladies' hands and 
eyes, and yet the 

ROYAL BEUENGARIA 

who stands beside him now, was the loveliest woman of 

her day. The mellow sun of fair Navarre never shown on 

a statelier crest, nor did the love-lights ever dwell in 
deeper blue eyes. 

The French Division was composed of a cavalcade of 

knights and priests, noblemen and pages, in the midst of 
whom sits upon a dais 

PHILIP OF FRAXCE, 

robed and crowned, magnificently attired in armor silken 
draped. On his right stands that famous prelate, 

THE ARCHBISHOP OF TYRE, 

who in the days of handsome men, was noted for his splen- 
did beauty, and in a coui't whei'e magnificence of dress 
was the rule, was distmguished by his matchless costume. 
On the left the 

EARL OF CHAMPAIGNE, 

di'essed in a complete armor. 

The 2\.ustrian Division was headed by 

LEOPOLD OF AUSTRIA, 

who, tall and strong and handsome, fair of face and hair, 
and brave as the lion whose etdgy he wore, was yet an 
awkwai-d and ungainly man, save when the gaudium cer- 
taminis infused his stalwarth frame and the fierce light of 
battle in his eye burnt only on his prey. 

Conrad of Montserrat stood by him here as he used to 
stand in war, and about him were the knights and pages 
and jesters of the Ducal household. 

Hei-e comes the gigantic Wallenrode, of Hungary, with 
vizor drawn and the lion of his house upon his shield. 

And then, after the splendid christian cortege had passed, 
it was only fitting that our friends of Momus .should give 
us some pictures of the nation against whom the crusade 
was directed. So it happened that the fourth platform 
was preceded by horsemen of another race from those who 
had gone before. Here were the representatives of that 
nation which, in those wild days, had drawn its myriads 
around the shiines and sepulchres of Palestine and made 
the hot sands of Syria sodden with the Christian's blood. 

Trooping down the streets of an American city, between 
rows of stately modern edifices came the du.sky battalions 
of the Saracen-representatives of the race who could not 
be conquered, and who fought with blind savagery for 
things they only prized because the hated Christian de- 



JEWELL'S CRESCENT CITY ILLUSTRATED. 



sired it. Their swarthy faces and the barbaric splendor 
of their trappings recalled the vanished centuries and re- 
peopled tjie arid plains of Acre with Paynim and Crusa- 
der. 

To complete the picture here eames the dais of 

SALAIHN'. 

About his royal couch the semi-savage creatiu-es of his 
household group themselves, the hideous deformed eunuch 
and voluptuous (Odalisque making vivid contrasts with 
their matchless ugliness and beauty. And in the midst 
was Saladin himself, the splendid barbarian who divided- 
with the lion-hearted king the crowns of history : in whom 
Richard owned his equal in prowess as in generosity. 

It was a splendid pageant, and did fair justice to the gor- 
geous ej)Och from which its figm-es have been drawn. Our 
brethren of Momus have cast no flimsy gage into the lists, 
and they of Comus and Revelers must take heed of their 
laurels, for lienceforth they will be more hardly won. 

The usual Ball and Tableau at the Opera House com- 
pleted the affair, and as a matter of course, the tableaux 
were a reproduction of the procession. 

TABLEAU FIRST. 

The Dtfiance. 

Kiiij;- Kichard trampling the Au.striiui Biniiii-r. 
at St. (icoro-e's Mount. 



TABLEAU SECOND. 
The Council of the Crusade 



R'lch-Md's Kct-onciliatiou with LeDpuUl. 



TABLEAU THIRD. 

The Yictorij. 

Defeat of Counide of Moiitserrat by Sir Keiiiietli 
ot the I>f'Opar(l. 



TABLEAU FOURTH. 

Honorimj the Victor. 

•' High place to thee in the Koyal Court ; 
High place in battle line : 
Where Beauty sees the brave resort. 
The honored meed be thine.'" 



FINAL. 

A ILij'j'i/ Xi'in Ytdi: 

The Ball was such as they have always been on similar 
occasions. The most select company of our city was pres- 
ent, and ignoi-ance as to who were the hosts hail no power 
to lessen the enjojnuent. 

Thus terminated their first entertainment. The ability 
and energy displayed by otu- Knights of Momus, their 
happy choice of subject, and the felicitous manner in which 
their ideal has been I'ealized, gave us good reason to wel- 
come them in the present and anticipate their reappear- 
ance in the future with every expectation of pleasure. 



HON. JOHN McENERY. 



This distinguished civilian and gallant soldier was born 
at PetersburgA'a., March 31st, 1833, the fifth child of Col. 
Henry O'Neal McEnei'y, a native of Limerick, Ireland. 
In early life his father emigrated from the old country to 
Virginia, where he formed a matrimonial alliance with Miss 
Caroline H. Douglas of James River, by whom he had 
eight children, only three of whom sui-^ive. He had a de- 
cided genius for military atfau-s, which soon developed it- 
self in the chivali'ous state of his adoption, where he held 
the rank of Colonel of the Virginia militia for several years. 
In the year 1S8.5, he removed to Monroe, Louisiana, be- 
came a planter, and, at the same tune, filled, with reputa- 
tion to himself and advantage to the community, the posi- 
tion of Register of the Land Office for a period of eight 
years. His superior knowledge of land matters contrib- 
uted largely to the settlement of North Louisiana by emi- 
grants from other states, enabling him to fui'nish them with 
valuable information as to localities for settlement, &c. A 
practical man of business, distinguished for his intellectual 
activity and knowledge of public affairs, few individuals, 
in that section of the state, exerted a more wide-spread in- 
fluence than Colonel McEnery. 

His son, the subject of this notice, received the rudi- 
ments of his education in the common schools of Monroe. 
In 1848, at the age of fifteen, he went to Hanover College, 
South Hanover, Indiana, and I'emained there till the fall 
of the year 1849. He then retm-ned home, wrote for hia 
father in the Land Office, and continued to prosecute hi? 
studies, and extend his information by as.siduous and rar- 
ied i-eading. In 1850, he entered the law ofiice of Isaial 
Garrett, Esq., of Monroe, La., a prominent and able lawyer 
read with him till 1S5:2, attended the lectures of the Lav 
University of New Orleans dui'ing the sessions of 1852 anc 
1 853, and graduated in due course. He immediately wen f. 
into partnership with his brother, (J. D. McEnery, Esq., 
recently deceased) at Monroe, where he obtained a veiy 
fair practice in a short time. 

In 1856, Grovernor McEnery married Miss Mary Thom- 
son, daughtei" of the late Dr. Thomson, of Caldwell Pari&h, 
by whom he has had eight childi'en, foiu' of whom only are 
living. In 1857, he was, without solicitation, appointed 
Register of the Land Office at Monroe, La., a lucrative and 
responsible office, (previously held by his father,) and in 
the administration of which he gave general satisfaction. 
He occupied this important post till the year 1861, when 
Mr Buchanan removed him from it in consequence of his 
advocacy of Mr. Douglas's election to the Presidency, and 
his championship, on the sttunp, throughout the state, of 
the claims of that distinguished senator to the first office 
in the gift of the people. Had Mr. Douglas succeeded in 
that canvass, little doubt is now entertained by any party 
that the secession of the Southern .states would never have 
taken place, or, if it had, that the war, inaugurated by Mr. 
Lincoln, would never have occiu-red. 

He -now resumed the practice of the law, but, immediate- 
ly upon the commencement of the wai', waged by the Fed- 
eral executive, by and with the consent of his cabinet, and 



JEWELL'S CRESCENT CITY LLUSTRATED. 




MJj-^i^ii^ Ji^US^tC CJIjUI. 



This Club was chartered May 15 1871, for the jDurpose of 
establishing a race course for the advancement of racing 
and improving the breed of horses, and the erection or the 
pm'chase and equijjment of a club house for the social en- 
joyment of the members. The stock of the Association is 
$100,000 in 1,000 shares, which may be increased to S^oO- 
000. By agreement with the Fair Grounds Association, 
the club has the exclusive use of the race course, for four 
weeks before and during each Spring and Fall meeting, for 
the period of twenty years, upon condition of erecting 
upon the grounds a Public Stand of the value of S-0,000, 
which is to revert to the Association at the end of the 
periv.)d of the lease, without incumbrance. The Club has, 
accordingly erected the splendid stand noticed in the ac- 
count of the Fair Grounds. 

The Club bought the property adjoining the Fair 
Grounds, which was once the residence of Mr. Luling, for 
$60,000. It has a front of 500 feet on Esplanade street, by 
2,500 deep, with an area of nearly 30 acres, situated on tlie 
Metaire Ridge and exempt from overflow. The grounds 
are well arranged and thicltly set with choice shrubbery. 
The family mansion has been converted into a club house. 
: t is a substantial and handsome three story brick edifice, 
with a gallery extending entirely around it at each story. 



The lofty, wide and au-y rooms are employed for Reception 
and Dining rooms, Parlors, Library, Reading and Billiard 
rooms, Restaurants, &c, all very handsomely and liberally 
furaished. most of the oaken furniture being elaborately 
carved by hand. The other buildings on the premises are 
in keeping with the main house, consisting of bowling al- 
ley, Pavillion, Kitchen and ten costly stables, with ample 
room for a hiuidred horses. 

The flower garden contains an extensive collection of in- 
digenuous and exotic plants and flowers compiising all the 
rarer varieties to be found in the temperate zone or within 
the tropics. The adjoining Park has a great number of 
forest trees of every kind, and orchards of orange, peach 
and apple trees, and grapevines, all bearing plentifully in 
their proper seasons. In the centre of the Park is a lake 
of pure fresh water surrounding a small island. 

Thus the members of the club have the benefits of a 
I^rincely private establishment, adorned with all that taste 
or comfort could suggest oi' wealth command. This they 
obtained already prepared, and at a -^ost less by many thou- 
sands than its real value, which can be little if any short of 
$100,000. The club is i-nder judicious, energetic and lib- 
eral administration, and its perfect prosperity and progress, 
give high hojies of its future career. 



JEWELL'S CRESCENT CITY ILLUSTRATED. 



the military aid supplied by the governors of seven North- 
ern states, he entered the Confedeiate army as captain of 
a company of infantry, was soon jjromoted to a majority, 
and, subsequently, to the grade of lieutenant-colonel, com- 
manding the 4th Louisiana Battalion. He served, with 
gallantry and distinction, in the campaign of 1861, in West 
Virginia, in Kanawa, under General Floyd — was ordered 
to Richmond, and, in the winter of 1862, was sent with his 
battalion to Savannah, Ga., — that place, as well as Charles- 
ton, S. C, being then threathened. In front of Savannah, 
he held the advanced posts. General Lee then command- 
ed there. He has now in his possession a friendly note, 
(which he highly prizes) under the hand of that illustrious 
personage, complimenting him for his dispositions, en- 
trenchments, &c. 

In 1863, he was ordered to Charleston, and participated 
with his command in the celebrated battle of Secessionrille, 
on .James Island, January 16th, 1868. His battalion ar- 
rived at the fort in time to save the day, and, consequent- 
ly, to sa''e the City of Charleston. The Southei-n ti-oops 
were driven out of the fort. The battalion under his com- 
mand recovered it, and drove back the enemy, who were 
ten times their numbei'. He was complimented in the 
General Orders, and the citizens of Charleston, always 
alive to feats of chivalry and bold daiing, showei'ed honors 
on him and his command. 

Governor McEnery also figured in the battles of Jack- 
son, Miss., of Chicamauga, of Dalton, Resaca, &c., &e., and 
was wounded twico, which disal)led him for nearly a yeai-. 

At the conclusion of the war, he resiimed the i)ractice of 
the law, in which he was successful. In 1 866, he was elect- 
ed a member of the popular branch of the state legislature, 
and served till 1867, when he was disfranchised by the sol 
disant 14th Constitutional Amendment of the Reconstruc- 
tion committee of the Federal Congress. He now devoted 
himself, with renewed and increased energy, to his chosen 
pi'ofession ; and the law, in his case, as with many states- 
men, proved for him the stepping-stone to political emi- 
nence. Probably his firm adlierencf; to piinciple, and the 
gallanti-y he had so often displayed on the battle-fields of 
the Southern Confederacy, were in a still highei' degree, 
elements of his popularity with the high-toned and tiue- 
hearted masses of his fellow citizens. Suffice it to say, 
that, in June, 1871, he was nominated, almost with accla- 
mation, by the Democratic convention, and, in July, by the 
Democratic and Reform pai'ties, and, in August, by the 
Democratic and Liberal party, for the office of governor 
of Louisiana, then reduced to the lowest .stage of political 
degradation by Federal speculators and spendthrifts. The 
state, in consequence of the nearly universal apathy that 
prevailed among its friends after the war, and its total in- 
difference to politics, had, without due reflection — with- 
out " looking before and after " — surrendered all its great 
interests. State and Federal, into the hands of a set of des- 
perate sharpers and adventurers, y'clept " carpet-baggers," 
who flocked hither in large numbers, after the Southern 
cau 3e was lost, in order to share the .spoils of an ill-gotten 
victoiy ; and who, by seizing on the reins of government, 
and using their power only to enrich themselves, have re- 



duced this once opulent state and floui-ishing city to the 
very brink of bankruptcy and ruin. In the year 1871, the 
friends of civil liberty and state rights made a bold and 
united effort to throw off the incubus of this disgi'aceful 
and pernicious misgovernment. Governor McEnery ad- 
vanced gallantly into the breach, as the trusted file-leader 
of the large party which advocated reform in state and mu- 
nicipal affairs, and the restoration of the original principles 
of the Federal constitution, and, with heavy odds against 
him, will, we trust, come off victor in the contest as he did 
in the famed battle of Secessionville, during the late war. 
Louisiana has again unfurled the state rights banner to the 
breeze, and other states. North as well as South, who weie 
once independent, look to the result of her present politi- 
cal controvers}- with " the powers that be " with intense 
and trembling interest, knowing that their own fate will, 
in all probability, be involved in that of down-trodden 
Louisiana, if she does not, at an early date, extricate her- 
self from the dangers which now threathen her vei-y exis- 
tence as an independent member of the Federal union. 

Governor McEnery unites a naturally strong and vigor- 
ous intellect with preat sweetness of temper and extraor- 
dinary firmriess and singleness of purpose. He is a man of 
action, and, having once adopted a plan that meets the ap- 
pi'oval of his judgment, suffers nothing to divert him fi'om 
its accompli.^hment, .and is subject to none of those outside 
influences which have degraded the American character in 
this age of political coi-ruption. A thorough conviction of 
his honesty, of his steadfast adherence to pi-inciple under 
all cii'i'umstances, of the transpai-ency and simplicity of his 
character, and his lion-like courage, has made him, wher- 
ever he is known, a universal favoiite. No individual, in 
the midst of times of high party excitement, was ever more 
remai'kable for the equanimity of his temper, nor for the 
self-possession and cool deliberation with which he addreses 
himself to the discussion of subjects and the adoption of 
measures. The style of his pi'oclamations and public 
speeches, is equally mai'ked by strength and tersen.ss, 
while it exhibits no vicious fondness for rhetorical orna- 
ment. He is certainly an impressive speakei'. In social 
life, he is rather reticent than loquacious, and never ob- 
triides his opinions una.sked. 

Governor McEnery is a conservative politi<'ian, opposed 
to everything like proscription. He is a friend to immi- 
gration from all lands and all sections that can supply the 
state with good citizens, and is disposed to do equal justice 
to all parties and all classes of men among us. 



THE ORLEANS COTTON PRESS. 



This vast establishment fronts on the Mississippi, run- 
ning back on Rouiignac and New Levee streets. The 
ground occupied is six hundred and thirty-two by three 
hundred and eight feet, and is nearly idvi'icd lij- the build- 
ings. The whole was built a('<-or(ling to designs made by 
Charles F. Zimpel, begim in 1833, and completed in 1835, 
at a cost, including the site, of $7.53,5.58. The front on 
the I'iver, although having no pretensions to architectural 
effect, is still, from its location and extent, quite impressive. 
This press can .store twenty-five thousand bales of cotton ; 
and compresses on an average, one hundred and fifty thou- 
sand bales per annum ; but its capacity is much greater. 



JEWELL'S CRESCENT CITY ILLUSTRATED. 




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The Cathedral akd Court Houses front on Jackson 
Square — which is bouncled by St. Anne street on the North, 
St. Peter street on the South, Chartres street on the West, 
and the Levee, open to the ri^'er, on the East. The splen- 
did rows of the Pontalba Buiklings, with their lofty gables 
and broad verandahs, overlook the square from the upper 
and lower sides. A massive paling of iron, set in a foot- 
wall of granite, encloses one of the most interesting and 
peculiar of public squares, which is European in character, 
and reminds the foreigner of the gardens atttached to 
palaces in the old world. Flowers in great variety bloom 
here in the open air at all seasons, and there is no month 
in the year when the rose, the indigenuous and favorite 
flower of Louisiana, is not found here in profusion in all 
stages of development. The walks are bordered with 
orange trees, which show their golden wealth throughout 
the Autumn and Winter ; the glassy green leaves of the 
magnolia reflect the sun Ijaek upon its vast snowy and 
green-like bowers ; the chistcring bananas hang in luxu- 
rient bunches under their canopy of gigantic leaves ; and 



birds of rich plumage and choice notes, unmolested by 
their familiar human companions, mingle their miisic with 
the voices of children, the tread of passengers, the panting 
of steamers, the rattle of cars and carriages, and the solemn 
echoes of the cathedral clock marking the hours of joy or 
care for young and old. 

The most interesting and conspicuous object in the 
Square is the colossal equestrian statue of Andrew .Tack- 
son standing in the centre on ground slightly elevated, • 
enclosed in an iron fence, and based on an enoi'mous block 
of granite containing about thirty cubic yards. The 
statue represents the grim warrior in the full dress uniform 
of 1815, in the act of raising his military chapeau in salute, 
his ponderous sword hanging from his belt, his left hand 
griped firmly to the reins of his horse. The latter is I'cpre- 
sented in the act of rearing, and stands balanced upon his 
hind feet. It is a spirited copy from life, and so well has 
the artist succeeded in this minor part of his gi-eat study, 
that one almost looks to see the bronze counterfeit spring 
fi'om his c;ranito footinc:. 



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The statue was conceived and modeled by Clark Mills 
)f Washington, and was cast undei' his supervision at 
Bladensburg. It weighs more than twenty thousand 
pounds, and cost to the city more than fifteen thousand 
d 'lars. Critics are not agreed as to the artistic merits of 
tue figure of the heroic rider, whose costume is not claimed 
'to be historically correct. 

This monument was raised as a tribute of gi'atitude and 
honor by the descendants of those who wei'e saved from 
insult, jjlunder and depredation by the hero of Chalmette, 
the best friend that New Orleans ever knew. Nearly fifty 
years afterwards, the basest, most cruel and most ignoble 
enemy of this city, regardless of the purjioi't of the monu- 
ment, caused to be engraved upon its pedestal ji memora- 
ble, but wholly inappropriate sentiment of .larksou — "The 
Union — it must and shall be preserved." 

The fcsqnai'e is a favorite playground, and upon ;iny fair 
Sunday evening it is thronged with flocks of happy ehil- 
di'en of all nations, of various colors, speaking many lan- 
guages, the French predominating. The cui-ious student 
of Southern character, as he sits upon one of the iron 
beaches, under the shade of an orange grove, will remark 
an utter absence of social distinctions and pretensions 
among these merry aetoi's in the bus} drama of fun and 
frolic, as well as their cordial and unvarying good nature, 
for which the native children of New Orleans ai'e justly 
noted. The observer will be equally charmed wit'i the mu- 
sical voices and graceful movements of the little creole 
deni'iiseUes, who exhiliit choral and I'ythmic instincts as 
soon as they can talk or walk. 



HISTORY OF CHRIST CHURCH. 



At a meeting helil "id of .January, 1805, composed of the 
Protestant citizens of New Oi'leans, at the )'esidence of a 
lady (Madame Fourage,) with a view of taking preliminary 
steps to pi'ocure a Protestant clei'gyman, and to seciu-e a 
lot of ground on which to ei'ect a suitable building for the 
performance of Divine worship, a committee was appointed 
to procure subscriptions, etc. 

Meetings were held on the 9th and Kith of .June, follow- 
ing, at which a report was received from the committee ap- 
pointed to oVitain subscriptions. At the meeting (jf Jime 
16th, it was determined to go into an election of a denomi- 
nation of the clergyman, and the ballot resulted as f(illows : 
Episcopalian, 4.5 votes ; Presbyterian, 7 votes ; Methodist, 
1 vote. Total, 53 votes. 

At a meeting held 16th November, 1S05, the Rev. Phi- 
lander Chase was reported as having ai'rived, bringing 
letters ot recommendation from the Right Rev. Bishop 
Moore, and the Rev. J. H. Hobart. At the meeting, an 
election of two wardens and thirteen vestrymen was made. 
A salary of two thousand dollars yearly was voted to the 
Rev. Mr. Chase. 

At a meeting held April lid, 1806, the rector was, by res- 
olution, placed under the ecclesiastical government of the 
Bishop and convention of New York, until a Diocese shoidd 
be organized in the Territory of Louisiana. 



By the records it appears that Rev. Mr. Chase resigned 
and returned to New York in ISll. 

At a meeting held June ITtli, 1S14, Rev. .1. F. Hull was 
invited to officiate in Christ (Jhurch. Salar\- two thousand 
dollars from .January 1st, 1815. 

In May, 1815, a lot of ground was pui'chased on which 
to erect the church, and the church edifi(;e was commenced, 
which appears to have been romph^ted by the 7th of 
April ISlC. 

Rev. Mr. Hull, when he lirst cumnienced dfficiating in 
Christ Church was not an ordained minister of the Epis- 
copal Church. It would seem that lie tools i)rdcr> in tlie 
church in 1815, or easly as ISKi. 

In the year 1830, the building of a new church was de- 
termined on. 

In December 183-J, the ofiice of Rectov of Chri>t Church 
was declared vacant, but a stipend of twelve hundred dol- 
lars per aimum was settled upon Mr. Hull during his life. 

On the lid of .June, 1833, the wardens were authorized to 
arrange witli the Rev. Mr. Barlow to p.?rform the duties of 
I'ector for the time being — also, to procui'e a suitable per- 
son to fill the position of rector permanently. 

It would appear that the Rev. Mr. Hull died about 10th 
of June, 1833, having Ikh-.i pastor of the church about ninL- 
teen years. 

Diu-ing the Winter of 1834. Bishop Brownell, of Cou- 
lu'cticut, officiated in Christ Church. 

At a meeting held 18th January, 1835, it was determined 
to build a new chui'ch at the corner of Bourbon and Canal 
sti'eets, noi'th side of Canal street. Tin; style of architec- 
ture was pi'ccisely (in extei-ior) lik(^ the .few's Synagoge, 
on Carou'lelet street, Ijetween Julia and St. .loseph streets. 

Bishop Brownell again officiated during- the Winters of 
1836 and 1837. 

Christ Chui'ch was consecrated bv Bishop Brownell on 
the -l&Wi of March, 1837. 

On April 20th, 1838, Rev. Dr. Wheaton entered upon his 
duties as Rector of Christ Church. 

May 13th, 1844, Dr. Wheaton resigned the Reetorshiij of 
Christ Chui'ch. 

Rev. Mr. Ramsey was invited to perform pastoral duty 
hi July, 1844. 

In 1S45, Dr. Francis L. Hawlvcs was inviteil to the rec- 
torshij). He arrived in New Oilcans 7th .January, 1845, 
and entered upon his duties. 

In March, 1845, preliminary stejis were taken for build- 
ing the present church edifice, corner of Canal and Dau- 
phine .streets. In May, 1846, it was determined to go on 
with the work under a contract with Mr. .lames Galiei' to 
cost fifty thousand dollars. 

In December, 1847, a beautiful Baj)tismal Fount was 
presented to the church by James Grimshaw, Esq. 

April )3th, 1849, Rev. Dr. Hawkes tendered his resigna- 
tion as rector, which was accepted. Arrangements wei'e 
made with Dr. Camp to officiate in the church temporarily. 

In September, 1849, the Rev. Dr. Neville was invited to 
the Rectorship of the Church, and, in November, 1849, he 
had entered upon duty. The Rev. Dr. Neville i-csigned the 
rectorship in April, 1852. 

In June, 1852, the Rev. Dr. Leacock was invited to the 
rector.ship, and entered upon his duties during the Fall of 
1852. At present, (January, 1S73,) he still fills the position 
very ac(;cptaJ)ly. 

Chi'ist Church is one of the most elegant church sti'uc- 
tures in Few Orleans, and is frequented liy very large num- 
bers of intellectual, refined, and apjireciative hearers. 



JEWELL'S CRECENT CITY ILLUSTRATED. 




HUGH MiCLOSKEY, ESQ. 



Since the pul)licatioii of this work was begun tlie peo- 
ple of New Orleans have lost one of their noblest citizens, 
Hugh MeCloskey, who died in his residenee. on St. Charles 
Street, on the 'Jstli January last, in the fifty-eighth year of 
his age. 

Mr. MeCloskey was a native of Dungiven, in the coun- 
ty Derry, Ireland, the same village in which the dis- 
tinguished Irish patiiot and exile, John Mitchell, was born. 
Mr. McCloskey's father was a .shoemakei', who, in Dun- 
given and the country about, was universally known as 
" Honest George MeCloskey," a title bestowed upon him, 
by his neighbors, because of a just, good and blameless life. 

Hugh had a good English education, which was finished 
at the Royal College at Belfast. His father's means being 
insufficient to send him to that institution, while yet a 
stripling, he earned enough himself, by teaching in his na- 
tive place, to accomplish that object, and, late in life, when 
he appeared as a public writei' to expose and denounce the 
political wrongs the people of his city and State were suf- 
fei'ing, his terse and effective compositions, betrayed the 
culture of his early years. 

When but little over age his eyes turned to America, as 
the eyes of so many had befoi'e and so many have since, as 
the Mecca of the poor, the industrious and the enterprising. 
He landed in one of the northern cities, whence, failing 
to find employment, he wended his way to the South and 
arrived in New Oi'leans, on Christmas day, 1838. A 
stranger, withoiit a fiiend or acquaintance, in his new home, 
his purse light, unable to Ihid a situation foi' which his edu- 
cation fitted him, he was constrained to seek any employment 
that he could get, rather than incur debt. He was wont, when 
prosperous and influential, to refer back to this period of 
his life, with a pride, which was commendable. Although 
of a slender framt^ and a liy no means vigorous constitu- 
tion, he worked as a laborer, laying gas pipes, in the streets 



of the city, and, month after month he toiled, with blistered 
hands, rather than eat the bi'ead of dependence. 

After a while he fell into a small ready-made clothing 
business, on the Levee, but did not succeed. Then he be- 
came an employe of Mr. Stevenson, who kept a soda and 
meal establishment, at the corner of Exchange Alley and 
Custom House streets, noted for the purity and excellence 
of the beverages. To that bu.siness Mr. MeCloskey suc- 
ceeded, and, thenceforth, was invariably a prosperous man, 
never relinquishing the traflc in which fortune fii'st favored 
him. 

Modest and unobtrusive, it was not until the year the 
civil war closed that public attention was drawn to the me- 
rits of this valuable citizen. His manly bearing, during 
the war, in maintaining his opinions, as a suppoi'ter of the 
Confederate cause, and his generous benevolences to the 
unfortunate, during that distressing j)eriod, impressed his 
fellow citizens with a high res]3ect for his character and at- 
tracted the affectionate regard of good people in every 
rank of society. Upon the re-organization of the State 
government that year, he was, by a large majoiity, elected 
a delegate to represent the Third Ward, in the House of 
Representatives of the General Assembly. That Legisla- 
ture of 1865-66, was distinguished in the annals of Louisi- 
ana for the high order of its average ability, for the moral 
elevation by which its deliberations were guided, and by 
the dignity with which its proceedings were conducted. 
Take it, in every aspect, no law-making body superior to 
it, has ever been assembled in any part of the Union and 
its equal has been rarely seen. It is not a small compli- 
ment to say that in that assemblage, Hugh MeCloskey 
exercised no inconsiderable influence. He was an active 
member of several important committees, and he showed 
that with the private excellences which made him so esti- 
mable, he had talents and aptitudes for political affairs, 
which rendered him a most useful public servant. 

Now the calls upon him to give his attention to mattei's, 
more or less public in their nature, became frequent. He 
assisted in organizing a company, which is permanently 
established, to secure, by importation, a constant and 
sufficient supply of ice for the city, and was one of the firsfr 
directors. At a critical time with the Canal and Claiboi'ne 
streets Railroad Company, he was chosen a director, and 
was largely instrumental in saving the corporation from 
bankruptcy and ruin. He was among those who initiated 
the jjroject of the Hibernia Bank, a very successful institu- 
tion, of which he became a Director and Vice-President. 
The last useful scheme of this sort, in which he was a 
pioneer, was the Hibernia Insui-ance Company, of which 
he was the first President. His services, in every one of 
these associations, were gratuitous. He sought none of 
the.se distinctions in business life, nor did he accept them 
as a money monger, for, personalh", he adhered to the law 
of the middle ages, which forbade the lending of money on 
interest. Nor coiild he be prevailed upon, whatever the 
temptation of gain, to connect himself with any of those 
legislative schemes and monopolies, which have so multi- 
plied since the General A.ssembly of ISe.'i and 1866, for 
public plunder, although repeatedly solicited and urged to 



JEWELLS CRESCENT CITY ILLUSTRATED. 




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Corner of IBaronno and Perdido Streets, Now Oi-lo:uis. 



JEWELL'S CRESCENT CITY ILLUSTRATED. 



do so. He would touch nothing that was adverse to the 
interests of tne people. 

So much in regard to him as a business man, a legisla- 
tor, and 1^ projectoi-. We now come to his persouid. char- 
acteristics. He led no campaign, he made no notable 
speech, he wrote no book, he discovered no new principle 
in science or in art, nevertheless he is worthy of high 
eulogium, for he was one of the most exemplary and valua- 
ble citizens we have ever known, possessing moral traits 
which are very rai'ely found united in any one man. 

He accumulated a handsome fortune, iv a calling com- 
monly thought belittling, which he had the sterling sense 
to stick to after he became affluent. Engaged in trade, 
during the greater part of his manhood, ^.nd successful in 
it, he was never known to utter an untruth or practice a 
deception. Profoundedly and practically religious few 
knew it, since the dawn of day was his favoiite hour for 
attending mass, the hour when the lowly and the unosten- 
tatious, in the Catholic church, usually attend divine ser- 
vice. He was never known to turn away the distressed or 
the unfortunate with an empty hand or a cold look. In 
his own poverty and hardships he did not forget the duties 
of charity. As he prospered he became generous, and as 
he grew affluent his benevolences were munificent. The 
severe struggles of his youth did not harden his heart, nor 
did his advanced years bring with them avarice. 

His life was sacrificed in the j)erformance of a public 
duty, volimtarily undertaken, at the instance of his fellow 
citizens. As one of the great committee sent to Washing- 
ton, to procure from the Federal authorities a redress of 
political grievances, he remained in the North several 
weeks, laboring in the cause with his accustomed zeal and 
enthusiasm, and in the extreme rigor of the weather, dur- 
ing December and January, he contracted a disordei-, 
which resulted in his death, soon after his return. What- 
ever he was enlisted in, whether to advance the interests 
of a friend, to perfect some project of public utility, to aid 
a charity or to promote good government, his noble min 1 
was absorbed in the matter until success attended his 
efforts, or luitil success was obviously impossible. And all 
this with the most perfect disinterestedness, entirely void 
of political ambition or design of pecuniary advantage. 

No wonder that his fiini>ral was a demonstration almost 
unequaied in its kind, in New Orleans. Hundreds of his 
good deeds that had been hidden, came to light when he 
was no more in this woi-ld. The beneficiaries and other 
inmates of most oi the charitable institutions in the city, 
participated in the obituary ceremonies, and a great multi- 
tude surrounded his late dwelling, attesting, in every be- 
coming way, the respect and veneration in which the 
memory of the good man and public-spirited citizen was 
held by all classes, by all nationalities, by all creeds. 



Algiers is the great work-shop of New Orleans, for the 
building and repairing of vessels. It has its dry docks, and 
other facilities for the most extensive operations. In busi- 
ness times, it presents a scene of activity that is seldom 
observed in any other part of these regions, and reminds 
one of the bustling and enterprise of the North. 



THE FORT ST. PHILIP CANAL. 



The Mississippi river has three principal outlet chan 
nels. They are the pass I'Outre, N.E., S.E., South, and \ 
West passes. Of these passes, the Southwest, is most 
used by vessels of the deepest draught, and this channel 
has been for two years past kept at a depth of 19i feet by 
dredge boats, built and worked at the expense of the Fed- 
eral Government. One vessel di'awing 'I'l feet has entei'ed 
the channel during the past season (1872). The navigation 
is, however, deemed precarious, and demands a more per- 
manent outlet. Soundings at the north of the navigable 
channels of the Mississippi, run back for a century and a 
half, and show a bar of from one to two thousand feet 
across, with depth of from eleven to thirteen feet on the 
bars. It is the regimen of the river essential to regula- 
tions of its current. This depth on the bar continues 
though the bar itself advances annually into the gulf — 
the bai' and outlet being over twelve miles lower down 
than it was a century and a half ago, while the water above 
the bar is fi'oni 60 to 50 feet deep. With this perpetual 
tendency to obstruction, the suspension of the dredge for 
even a short period allows the channel to fill, so that there 
has been at one time a number of ships loaded with cotton 
and other mei'chandize stranded on these bars, to the 
great detriment of the city and shipping interest. These 
obstacles long since led to scientific discussions, as to the 
best means of relieving navigation. Experiments and es- 
timates were made foi' concentrating the current by wing 
draws, and caissons, lightering vessels, by canals and dredg- 
ing. About the year 1832, Mr. Buisson, a civil engineer 
in the service of Louisiana, proposed to flank the passes 
by a ship canal leading from the river at a point about 27 
miles above its mouth, into a deep water harbor in the 
gulf, a distance of seven miles. The studies and estimates 
of Mr. Buisson were adopted by the Legislature of Louisi- 
ana and Congress was asked to cause an examination 
of the practicability and cost of the work. A report was 
made by the topographical Bureau in 18.37, expressing his 
opinion that the canal could be built at a cost of S10,000,000. 
This was an impossible sum at that period, and the prospect 
fell. About the year 1858-59, Mr. Montagu, a civil engi- 
neer, renewed the proposals, fortified by a re-survey and 
estimates, and proposed the formation of a joint stock 
company to construct the work and conduct tho trade, for 
a compensation to be collecti,.j from toils on ^we commer- 
cial tonnage. This plan, favored by the Insurances offices 
and the Chamber of Commei'ce, was prevented by the war, 
but was renewed in an application to Congress for a sur- 
vey, and appiopriations to construct the canal as a nation- 
al ship canal, open in free passage to all vessels. The ag- 
gregate endowments mentioned were confirmed by a sur- 
vey, made by the Federal government in 1871-72, with an 
estimate of cost at $6,000,000. A bill has been printed 
for this object at the present session of Congress. All the 
Western cities favor this work, and the National Board of 
Trade at its New York session, unanimously recommeded 
its construction. 

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new importance, since the immense increase in the pro- 
duction of corn in the States so distant from the sea board. 
From the western verge of this cereal area, it now costs 
from fifty-five to sixty cents to place a bushel in the mar- 
kets of Europe. This leaves so small a balance to the 
credit of the cultivator, that corn is not worth in Iowa 
more than twenty cents a bushel. In some cases it has 
come to be used in the place of fuel. This cost of trans- 
portation is increased by the great quantity of corn sent 
forward just before and just after the ice blockade, it 
being greatly in excess of the motion stock. At this jioint 
the Mississippi affords a way always open and always ade- 
quate to this immense commerce. It thus becomes a regu- 
lator of freiglit on othei' waters. Now, as the rate of 
fi'eight is always pi'oportioned to the capacity of the ocean- 
vessel, it is plain that with a depth of thirty-five feet, pro- 
posed to be given by the outlet, canal vessels of such bur- 
den could be put in the bulk grain trade, as would carry 
from 90 to 100,000 bushels. The reduction of freight re- 
sulting from this enlargement of vehicles, would extend 
the cereal productions much further west, and add a value 
to the material domain much greatei' than the cost of the 
work, necessary to effect it. 

As a general proposition ; the outlet to 850,000 square 
miles, occupied by little less that 20,000,000 of jjeople, and 
producing $2,000,000 annually, should be opened without 
I'egard to cost. It may be remarked that it is the only ob- 
struction to the principal navigable waters of the Missis- 
sippi, which remain to be provided for by the government. 
The Des Moines Rapids, the Falls of the Ohio and the 
Muscle Shoals of the Tennessee, being all completed or 
under construction. 

The outlet canal eompli-ted, this noble river will be tlirnwH 
open to commerce from its inouth, along its whole naviga- 
ble courses, free from natviral obstacles oi' tolls. In this 
result the whole Union is interested. 



NAPOLEON JOSEPH PERCHK, 

AKCH-mSIIOl' OF NEW OKLEANS. 

On'E of the most disastrous draw-backs of biographical 
literature is, that the individuals, wlio most pi'ominently 
figure in it, ai-e precisely those who have done the least 
good or the most harm to humanity. The world's real 
benefactors have a peculiar secret in which they wrap 
themselves, just as if they were ashamed even of the 
treachei-y of effects in betraying them as their cause. To 
this modest but truly illustrious class of men, the subject 
of this sketch belongs, and, in oui' succinct notice of his 
l>i'iiclircnt career, we here assert, unhesitatingly, that he 
oeenpies in it no secondary place. 

Napoleon .((iseph ]^ereli(> was boni <if pii>us and honor- 
able ])arents at Angens, th(^ capitol of tlu; Department of 
Maerie-et-Soire, formerly calU'd Anjou, on the lOth of .lan- 
uai'y, in the year ISO,""). lie was educateil in the same city 
and in colleges of the vi<-inity; was ordaiiuHl priest in 182!); 



came to the United States in 1837; was four years in the 
Missions of Kentucky; came to New Orleans in January, 
1842; remained as Chaplain to the Nuns of the Ursuline 
('onvent till 1870, when he was appointed Coadjutor to 
Arch-bishop Odin cum jure succesiovis; was consecrated on 
the 1st of May of the same year; at the death of Ai'ch- 
bishop Odin, succeeded him, and received the pallium 
from his Holines, Pius IX, in Deeembei', 187(1. 

Arch-bishop Perche is largely identified with the history 
of religion and religious institutions, both in France and 
America, during the present century. The developments 
of his powerful intellect api)eared at a very early period of 
his life. He read the French language with facility at four 
years of age. \ t fifteen, he studied philosophy with en- 
thusiasm. At eighteen, he was promoted to a Professor- 
ship of it, and wore its mantle with grace and dignity. 
He is equally distinguished as a divine and a canonist. In 
the former august character, he wi'ites French unction 
with intellectual vigor in the highest degree. 

We do not know for which to admire this great man 
most, the paternity which he displays in the sphere of 
parochial and diocesan duty, or the championship he ex- 
hibits in the conduct of theological arguments. The chai'- 
acteristie traits of his genius are amenity and force. 

He thinks for a whole community, and his affections are 
as diffusive as his thoughts. He understands the powei' 
exei'ted, in a free country, by the press as well as the jjul- 
pit, and has, for many years, been at the head of a catholic 
press in this city (which is his own property), and which 
has exerted immense influence. He is a charming conver- 
sationalist, alwa^'s bringing wit, learning, good humor, 
knowledge of the world, and a varied experience to em- 
bellish his discourse. 

Though a Frenchman by nativity, he is thoroughly iden- 
tified with Amei'ica and her institutions, and has attained 
to the mastery of a pure, forcible and elegant English 
styl(^ which places him in the front rank of Ameiican 
wiiters. Nothing can be more finished tlian the Archi- 
episcopal letters which he, from time to time, communi- 
cates, when the condition of the Church requires it, to the 
luimerous parishes in his diocese, and which, by all libei'al 
and discriminating men outside of the Catholic church, as 
wt?ll as within its circles, are nearly equally admii'ed, not 
only for their literary execution, but for the genial and 
apostolic tone which pervades them. 

In looking through the annals of this time-honored 
( 'hurch for I'epresentative men, we find that there is one 
individual whom Arch-bishoiJ Pei-che strongly resembles — 
we allude to Leo Tenth, who, to the manner and refine- 
ment of a polished gentleman, added the impressive carri- 
age of a dignified ecclesiastic, equally cognizant of the 
affairs of the world and of the Church. We believe his 
Grace is on terms of excellent imderstanding with Pius 
Ninth, the Catholic Head of Christendom,- whom he visited 
at Rome during his recent troiibles, and that thei-e is no 
dignitary of the Church, in the United States, in whom 
his Holiness places more entire ccnifidence tor upholding 
its iidegrity, maintaining its unsullied honor, and seciu'ing 
its triumphs over its enemies, than Areh-bishop Perche. 



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COLONEL ISAAC G. SEYMOUR. 



Ix 110 other city in the United States, perhaps we iiiiglit 
say ill no other city in tlie world, have there been so many 
journalist soldiers as in New Orleans. Peter K. Wagner, so 
long editor of the Loi^isiana " Courier," and the recognized 
champion of the Democratic party of the State, was a lieu- 
tenant ill the army with which .Tacksou defended New Or- 
leans. John C. Larue of the " Delta," suosequently of the 
" Crescent," who was, in his day, among the ablest as an 
editor, as a jurist, and as a politician, served as a volunteer 
in the ranks of General Taylor's army, on the Rio Grande. 
General William Walker, the celebrated filibustero, who 
made his name famous, as a desperate fighter in Nicaragua, 
was a colleague of Larue on the " Ci escent." Alexander 
jJays, the most capable pi-actical newspaper man we have 
ever had in New Orleans, who was one of the found _rs of 
the " Delta," and one of those who established the " Cres- 
cent," sought dangerous adventures, during the Mexican 
war, as an amateur, under his fiiends, Captains Fairchild 
and Kerr, typos fi'om New Orleans, who held oommissioiis 
in the Louisiana cavalry. George Wilkins Kendall of the 
" Picayune," was one of the Texan band who undertook the 
main expedition, for the invasion of Mexico, the niisfoi tunes 
of which are the themes of a melancholy history written by 
him, and, during the Mexican war with the Uniled States, 
while corresponding with his paper, he was on the stafi' of 
General Worth, sharing the dangers and hardships of that 
enterprising and gallant officer. F. A. Lumsden, the asso- 
ciate of Kendall on the " Picayune," was, during the early 
period of that war, attached to the Texas Rangeis, and was 
I with them when they rendered themselves famous in the 
attack upon Monterey. In the civil war we had, in the 
Confederate army, J. O. Nixon, pi'oprietor of the " Cres- 
cent," as Lieutenant-Colonel of the First Louisiana t'avalry ; 
Israel Gibons, an attache of the '' Cresci.'iit," who served a.s 
a private, in the Nineteenth Louisiana, uii^il physical dis- 
abilities incapacitated him for service in the line, and he 
was appointed quarter-master, with the rank of major ; 
Lieutenant Wright of the " Bee," an officer of the Tnirtieth 
Louisiana, killed in battle ; Joseph Hanloii, of the " True 
Delta," who from captain rose to the command of tlie Sixth 
Loui iana, three of its colonels having been killed instantly, 
upon different battle-fields ; Daniel Scully of the " Delta," 
and " True Delta," who, as correspondent of the " Pica- 
yune," saw service on the staff of General Joe Lane, the 
" Marion of the Mexican war," and, in the late wai', was 
senior line officer of the Second Louisiana Batallion of 
Heavy Artillei'y ; and Majoj Williaiii J. Sej-mour, son of 
the subject of this notice, and associate editor of the " Bul- 
letin," who was Aid-de-Canif) to General Duncan, during his 
defence of Fort Jackson, against Fari'agut's fleet, and, sub- 
sequently, until the close of the war, was on duty, as chief 
of staff, with the indomitable brigadi^ of Louisanians, com- 
manded by General Heni-y T. Hays. 

Isaac G. Seymour, of whom we are writing, as one of 
those who dropped the pen, and buckled on the sabre or 
shouldered the mu.sket, at the call of duty, was a man whose 
life and services deserve moi'O than a passing notice. His 



family was a branch of that Connecticut stock of Seymoui's 
who have been so eminent for virtues and for talents, and, 
as publicists, have been so conspicuous for the courage and 
force with wdiich they have maintained and constantly ad- 
hered to the great princijiles of constitutional liberty. He 
was ;)orii in Savannah, Georgia, in October, 1801. He grad- 
uated, creditaV)ly, at Yale College, and, soon after, estab- 
lished himself, as an advocate, at Macon, Ga. His practice 
gave early promise of an ample income, but he found the 
profession distasteful and abandoned it for journalism, when 
he became editor of the Macon " Messenger," which, while 
he was connected with it, was regarded as the organ of the 
whig party of the State. Civic honoi'S came upon him too. 
For several successive terms, embracing a period of six 
years, he was chosen mayor, by his fellow citizens of Ma- 
con. 

His advent, as a soldier, was made in the war with the 
Seminole Indians in Florida, in 1836, when he raised }i com- 
pany of Georgia Volunteers. He was favorably noticed liy 
General Clinch and by (j^eneral ,Scott, under both of whom, 
succe.s.sively, he served. General Scott, particularly, seems 
to have been impressed with the martial aptitude and con- 
duct of the captain, for the General repeatedly offered his 
influence to procure a commission for him in the regular 
army, which was declined because of the inertia and moiw- 
tony of militai'v life in time of peace. The Mexican wai', 
however, which commenced in May, 184C, brought him to 
the " tented field" again. He organized a battallion of in- 
fantry in his native State, and was selected for its colonel. 
Shortly after the capture of Vera Cruz he I'eported for duty 
to his foi-mer commander-in-chief. General Scott. Cei-ro 
Goi'do fought and won. La Hoya abandoned, PucVla fell, 
and a few months after our forces made their way into the 
City of Mexico. General Scott .showed his appreciation of 
(Colonel Seymour's ability, judgment and coui-age, by con- 
fiding to him the command of the town and castle of Pei'ote, 
one of the most important posts on the line of communica- 
tion from the capital to the American base at the Gulf. In 
command of that post he remained until the close of the 
war, in the summer of 1848, when he returned to Georgia, 
where his battallion was mustered out of service, and again 
he retui'ned to private life. 

In the autumn of that year he removed to New Orleans, 
to make it his permanent i-esidence, and immediately piii- 
chased the " Bulletin" newspaper from Mr. William L. 
Hodge. Under Mr. Hodge the " Bulletin" had been a zeal- 
ous propagandist of those extreme measures which were 
forced upon the whig party, by Northern and Eastern cujji- 
dity, and which compelled the abandonment of the National 
organization of that party by so many Southern ei'S. Colo- 
nel Seymour brought the paper back to what it had been, 
under the control of William Carey Jones, son-in-law of 
Thomas H. Benton, and the immediate predecessor of Mr. 
Hodge. Thus Colonel Seymour made it the accejitable re- 
presentative of the ideas and interests of the agricultural, an 
well as the mercantile communities of the State, and speed- 
ily it became a journal respected by, and i)opular with, all 
classes. 

Associated all his life with a party tinged more or less. 



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according to place and occasion, with ideas antnyonistir to 
the sovei-eigiity of the (States; circuiuspei-t in all tlihiys 
and especially in ])(ilitii-s, an<l slow, therefore, tn veiiluri' 
upon experiments, in ]iulilic alfairs, it can well In' imagined 
that he thonglit long and tliouglit dcejily upon the election 
of a sectional man to the presidency, and upon all those is- 
sues which resulted in our civil war. His judgment was 
that the election of .Mr. Lincoln left no honoralili' recourse 
to his iiati\i' i-^outli but secession, and, if invaileil, roist- 
ance. That juilgment formed, tlu-neeforth, with pen and with 
sword 111' maintain<'d the cause of the ("oufederate States. 

In lsiil,\vhen hostilities began, he was nearly iifty-scven 
_\ cars of age. lie hail reached a time of life when most men 
long for retirement and eaM-. but with him as with the illus- 
trious Lee, duty was [laramount. His reputation as a sol- 
dier induced the line ofiieers of the ISixth Louisiana Regi- 
ment of Infantry to tender to him, unanimously, the com- 
mand of the battallion, and it was instantly accepted. With 
his regiment, he was at the first battle of Mana.s?,;is. uud, 
during the retreat of (jeneral .bie .lohnston upon 1,'ich- 
mond, to him was assigned the honor of commanding the 
rear guard. He was with thi' heroic Jack.son throughout 
that splendid campaign, in the \'alley of ^'irginia, against 
Bank.s, Fremont, Shields and Milroy. He was i-ngagcd in 
the attacks upon McClellaud's right, liefore Richmond, on 
the 'itith and 27th .liine, Isd-J, and was instantly killed, on 
the last mentioned day. at the battle of (iaino .Mill being 
the 2d days fight in the battles before Richmond— hav- 
ing been pierced by two minuie balN. 

The reader will readily infer thecsteem in which this ail- 
mirable re23re8entative of So\itliein character was held. 
With i)ri)fessional talents us a journ.alist he had discreetness 
and a remarkably sound judgment. He was not more re- 
markable for these qualities than Ibr the lirntness and \igor 
with which he guarded the columns of his paper against 
wrong, or misrepresentation, and against every unseem- 
liness that might gi\-eotrenceto tile uiof^t fastlduous of well- 
bred peoph^ As a soldii'r he was loved b_\- his rank and file, 
as well as by his subor.linati' ottici/rs. 

His latest command, composed of men of invincible 
bravery, dem.-uidcd a high standard of courage in their 
leader. They regarded him as up to that slandard, and 
loved and respected him accordingly. When not in active 
service, abounding animal spirits often made tlicni niischiev- 
ous and sometimes disorderly, but he ne\ei- failed to en- 
force strict discipline when the good of the semice demand- 
ed it. And that discijjline was submitted to. w iihout com- 
plaint. He demonstrati'd that volunteers, though prone to 
turbulence, as they olten are. may be made ei|ual to the 
best of soldiers wdieii they see in their commander an otiicer 
without jiartialities, who nexer allows his men to be ini- 
po.sed ti])oii,and who follows the ailvicc of Luttreli of Arraii 
to his son : -'When perils.are to be encountered ne\ersay 
go, ahvaNs say conic" 

In no case was the conduct of ( ieiier.il Ihitler more offen- 
sive to the people of New ( )i'le;iiis than when he sujipresscd 
the imbli.-.ation oi' tlie ■' IJullctin," coiiliscatcl the m.ilerials 
of the ollice, and tiii-ned them over to a [lair of adventurers 
wdio had followed him. 'I'he pai)er was, at the time, con- 



ducted by Maj. Wm. J. Seymour, a pardoned prisoner await- 
ing exchange, and Mr. J. V. Dinnies, the commercial editor. 

Both these gentlemen, Air. Diiiuies well advanced in 
years, were sent to Fort Jackson, where the latter was sub- 
jected to severe treatment for many months, and where the 
former remained a close prisoner tuitil he was exchanged. 
It is imputed tp General Butler, and not without reasonable 
ground.s for belief, that his object was to secure to his fol- 
lowers to whom he gave the " Bulletin" office, the jirofits of 
a (-ontract which the paper had as city printer. 

Subjoined is an extract from an editorial notice oi the 
death of ( 'olonel Seymour, in the " Bulletin," written by 
Ml-. Dinnies, which extract was quoted by General Butler, 
as justifying liis proceedings. It simply did justice to the 
character and the fame of Isaac G. Seymour, and we re- 
produce it to aid us in illustrating the nobility of his nature: 

'•Others who have done their duty to their country as 
nobly, disinterestedly and bravely, were impelled by the ar- 
dour of youth and the stimulus of ambition, as well as by 
the dictates of j)atriotism. But with him, who had outlived 
till.' fires of youth, and was superior to mere aspirations for 
famt'. the motive that carried him to the field was simply 
])rt "1 . It was Duty that led him to accept the command 
of his regiment. It was Duty that governed him in camp, 
in giving his men those lessons in the soldiei'is' science, 
which fitted them to fulfill the various requirements of the 
service with intelligence and efficiency. It was Duty that 
kept him at his post, under all discouragements. It was 
Dri'i tliat inspired him in his intrei)id charge at Port Re- 
pulilie. It w.is Duty that placed him hi the front of danger 
at the battle of the Chickalumiiny ; and, in fine, it was on 
I the al'ar of 1)1 ty that he ottered up his life." 

( ' \ IIKOL'I'ON. a ilistaiice of six miles by the railroad, is an 
exceedingly [ileasant resort. The line, for nearly a third 
of the way, ]iassi's through the suburbs of the city, and is 
dotted on either side with beautiful residences — the re- 
mainder passes through pleasant pastures, and delightful 
wood-lands. The road, like the country, is ])erfectly level 
shelled and kejit in the finest condition. At the end of the 
route is situated the \ illage ; which is principally com- 
poseil of tastefidix built cottages, constructed in I'very 
variety of architecture that suited the individual fancy of 
the owner. Opposite the railroad dejjot, is one of the 
handsiimest and most exten.sive public gardens, that is to 
be foiuid in the vicinity of New Orleans. Here the genial 
and warm hearted Daniel Ilickok presides with that ease 
and air of hospitality that have made him so popular and 
so widely known. He delights in showing the rare flours 
of his lieautiful garden to the many strangers who visit 
him — and it is always hi-^ .aim to please those who resort 
to the Carrolton Gardens lor i-eci-eation and amusement. 

A'l' tlie commencement of the holydays, the city begins to 
[Hit on a gay asjiect. Msitors from all parts of the haliita- 
lile globe, come here, either on business or jileasure. A 
general round of balls, masipierades, soirees and parties be- 
gin, audare continued without iiHcrmission during the sea- 
son. Theatres and operas with their .s/.^/'.< and prima don- 
iiii.t, circuses .ind menageries, bell-ringers and serenaders, 
are in full success. 




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JOHN DAVIDSON, ESQ. 

John Davidsox, the subject of this memoir, was the 
eldest son of .Tames Davidson, of l^undee, Scotland, at 
which place John was born, on the 18th of December, 
1816. His father emigiated to this country, in the year 
181S, and settled at Monticello, in the State of New York. 
After an unsatisfactory trial of farming, he determined to 
embark in the slate business, in the city of New York : 
and for that purpose, made his home anew in that wonder- 
ful centi-e of industi-y, wealth and enterprise. It was thei-e, 
amid the ex(ntements and energy of the most rapidly de- 
veloping emporium of the world, that the childhood and 
youth of our subject was passed. It was there, under 
those influences, that his character, which was afterwai'(l 
so distinguished by earnestness, enei'gy. and praetieal 
judgment, was formed. 

He received a good grammar-school education, and, at 
an early age, became connected with his father in busine.ss. 
It was not long befoi'e his intelligence, strict i'elial)ility and 
indefatigable industi'v made him complete master of that 
business, and placed upon his young shoulders the respons- 
ibility of its management. 

At the age of twenty-two years, when most young men 
are commencing life, he left New York, and came to oni' 
sister city. Mobile, a complete business man. Mi'. John 
Lyall, whose death has been so recently recorded, and who 
wa.s so universally respected in this commimity, was then 
actively engaged here in the importation of slates. He 
was an intimate and old fiiend of the Davidson fanuly, and 
had formed for young Davidson a strong friendship, which, 
as it was fovinded on respect for Ids real sterling merit, 
la.sted through his entire life. 

Mr. Davidson visited this city soon after he rea<'hed Mo- 
bile, and, in fulfilment of a promise made years befoi-e, 
called to see Mr. Lyall, and laid before him the plans and 
purposes of his opening career in the sunny South. The 
result was the immediate fonnation of a partnership lie- 
tween them, and thus commenced the history of a commer- 
cial firm whose standing and credit has nevei- been sur- 
passed in this busy mart of conmierre. None of our old 
merchants will need an introduction lo the linn u[ Lyall A' 
Davidson. The .story of their success and rapid growth in 
wealth, is inter-woven with the c(munercial history of the 
State. They were engaged, from 1 n;!!I, when the jiarlner- 
ship was formed, in the importation of .slates from tlie 
quarries of Wales, and supplied, to a large extent, the 
whole southern market, and, indeed, the whole country 
bordering upon the Mississippi vivm-. until is.'id. when 
John Lyall retired from the iiiin with handsome cajiital, 
which he endiarked in sugar planting (_)n Bayou Lafourche. 
He was succeeded by James C. Davidson, a younger, and 
only, brother of John Davidson, and the style of the iirni 
was then changed to J. & J. ('. Dayidson. From ls-"i(l to 
the connnencemeut of the war in ISCiI, the cireer ot the 
new fii-m was one of unparalleled suecses in thai line of 
business — yielding innnense profits and rajiidly I'nriching 
both partners. Tlieir importations amounted to over two- 
thirds of the entire imj)ortations to the United States. 



This business was conducted and developed by their o-ood 
judgment and clear bu.sine.ss s(>nse. By well-directed 
movements and combinations, coupled with perfect mer- 
cantile I'eliability, they succeeded in bringing to New Or- 
leans almost the entire control of this most valuable trade: 
th(>reby not only enriching themselves, and adding largely 
to the prosperity of the state, but at the same time setting 
an example, in the imitation of which by our people the 
material prosperity of Louisiana may yet be greatly en- 
hanced. 

The practical character of Mr. Dayidson led hiiu to make 
the safest investments of his capital, and, \yhen the recent 
war commenced, it found him the owner of an immense 
amoiint of real propertj- in and around New ( )rli>ans. He 
also had a large planting interest in the adjoining parish 
of St. Bernai-d. He suffered severely from the war. His 
pi'operty was taken possession of by the federal forces and 
large assessments laid upon him by the eonnnanding offi- 
cers of the ITnion army on account of his known, sympa- 
thies with the confederate cause. He lost a large negro 
property, and was compelled to ab.indon his business dur- 
ing the occupancy of the city by tln' federal forces; but, 
such was the good sense di.splayeil by the inyestment of 
his means, that, at the close of the war, he was still a man 
of large wealth. 

So soon as he could make his arrangements to reeoni- 
nience business, his brothei' having retired, he formed a 
partner.ship with his nephew. Col. .lames D. Hill, a gallant 
and highly distinguished young officer of the confederate 
army, and the business of the firm was resumed under the 
style of J. Davidson & Hill. On the third day of January, 
1S72, his life, which had been a singularly useful and hap- 
|)y one. w,as brought to a sudden <-lose by one of the most 
shocking ealannties that eyer startled ^his cinnnnnnty. He 
was di'iving, in his buggy, upcm the streets of New Orleans 
in the forenoon of the day, when he was most unexijectedly 
overtaken by a dummy-engine, di-awing freight cars 
thi'ough the city, and, in attempting to escape from the 
j)erilous situation in which he was placed, jumped from the 
liuggy and fell, lie was struck b) some portion of the 
ti-ain and so se\-erely injured that death (piickly ensued. 

lie was a mendier of the Presl>yterian church. By a 
strange coincidence, one year from the day of his funeral 
services were conducted by K'ev. Di-. Palmer, a like solemn 
duty was performed by the same diyino over the remains 
of Mr. Lyall, who had died while visiting his old partner's 
homestead and family in the city of New Oi'leans. 

His strongly mai'ked qualities, both of head and heart, 
hail made a deep impression upon the i)eople of this city, 
and the news of his death was received everywhere, and by 
all classes, with unfeigned sorrow. The death of sircli a 
man at such a time, was indeed a public calamity. He not 
only possessed large means, but was full of enterprise, and, 
uji to the last day of his life, was earnestly engaged in 
liushing forward every project which promised relief to 
our sutfeiing people. There was nothing little or contract- 
ed aliout him. His views, \ipon all subjects of public inter- 
est, were broad and enlightened, and he never refused to 
endiark his means fr(^elv in I'easonable ventures for the 



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restoration of om- lost prosperity. He gave his time and 
counsel, without stint, upon all important public commit- 
tees, and akhough for years before his death an invalid, 
yet he never failed to appear with punctuality at the coun- 
cil board of om" various public institutions with which he 
was connected. But the supreme virtue of his ehai-acter, 
to those who knew him best, was the loveliness of his pri- 
vate life. At home, he was the centre of happiness in a 
family circle of more than ordinary attractiveness. He 
was always cheerful, and, though by natiu'e painfully sens- 
itive, he bore all the vexations incident to such an active 
life as his was, with a quiet patience and gentleness which 
diffused around him a spirit of contentment. Su(?h a man 
was John Davidson, and our country would be happiei- far 
if there were more such characters to delineate. 

H. C. CASTELLANOS. 



This eloquent criminal lawyer was born in New Orleans 
on the l"2th of December, 1827. 

He was educated at Georgetown College (D. C.,) and at 
St. Marj-'s, Baltimore, where he graduated with the degree 
of Bachelor of Arts, in 1847. 

In 1848 he was admitted to tli(» bar of New Orleans, and 
belonged to the first class of graduates in the University 
of Louisiana, his classmates being George Eustis, D. C. La- 
batt, Peniston and others. 

At the age of twenty-four, he was elected delegate to the 
Constitutional Convention of 1852. 

He was Editor of the " Louisiana Courier," of the " New 
Orleans Delta " and the founder of the " Attakapas Re- 
gister. 

As a criminal lawyer it is conceded that he has not a 
superior in the State. 

JAMES McCONNELL. 



This accomplished lawyer and worthy gentleman, is a 
native of Louisiana. He was educated at Wa-shington 
College, Penn., and is a graduate of the Law Department 
of the University of Louisiana, having begun the j)raetice 
of the law in this city in 18.')2. 

During the late war he served as a Lieutenant in the 
First Regiment Louisiana Heavy Artillery. 

He also served in the Legislatures of 18Cfi and "67. 

Devoted entirely to the practice of his profession, in 
which he has attained success, he eschews politics and is 
quite popular. 

Mr. McConnell is a vigorous speaker. The character of 
his argument is more of tiic solid and sensilile than of the 
sensational and can be relied on iisually. He has a noble 
heart located in the right place. 

The education of youth is of the utmost importance to a 
country — especially to one like this, that should be gov- 
erned by the intelligence of its citizens. The portals to 
learning should be thrown wide ojien, equally to all — for 
upon knowledge is based the beautiful tenqile of liberty. 
Tear away this foundation and the fair (>diru-e must fall. 



GEN. ALBERT G. BL VNCHARD. 

Gen'ekal Blaxchahd, a distinguished Civil Engineer 
of this city, graduated at the West Poi'it Military Academy, 
ill the year 1829, in the :!d United States Infantry. In 
] 832, he married Miss Susan T. Thompson, from whom de- 
scended two children, a son, the Rev. H. Blanchard, of 
Lowell, and Mrs. S. B. Elder, one of our most popular 
Southern poets.known as " Hermine."' 

He married, a second time, Madamoiselle Herniinie Bene- 
vist la Salle, ftom whom descended fifteen children, some of 
whom are living. 

General Blanchard left the Army in 184tl, and engaged in 
commerce until 1846, during which time he was an efficient 
Director of the Public Schools of New Orleans. 

In 1846, he entered the Army as Captain of the 2ud Reg- 
iment of Louisiana Volunteers and went to Mexico. On 
the disbanding of General Smith's Brigade, he raised a com- 
pany, called the Phoenix Company of Loilisinna, served as 
the representative of Louisiana at the stonning of Monterey 
and was complimented in General Orders, and subsequently 
at the siege of Vera Cruz, where the company was mustered 
out, their time having expired. He wius then appointed 
Captain of Voltigeurs, which post he declined, but accepted 
that of Major of the 12th United States Infantry, in which 
capacity he served till the close of the war. 

Retui-ning to civil life, he became a teacher in the Pub- 
lic Schools, and was elected District Surveyoi' of Municip- 
ality No. 2, and Surveyor , on the death of G. T. Dunbar, 
Esq., who had previously occupied that position. He was 
subsequently, elected Deputy Surveyor of the City of New 
Orleans, and filled the place until the year 18.14. 

He is a Fellow, and was one of the original founders of 
the New Orleans Academy of Sciences. 

From 1854, to 1861, he was Secretary and Manager of 
the Carrollton Railroad Company. 

In 1861, on the occurrence of the late war was elected Col- 
onel of the 1st Confederate Regiment from Louisiana, and 
went to ^'irginia. In September 1861, he was promoted to 
the office of Brigadier Genei-al, served through the war in 
Virginia, Louisiana, South Carolina and North Carolina, be- 
ing in the last great battle of the war at Bentonsville, 
North Corolina. 

Since then, he has been directly engaged in engineering 
on the Opelousas Railroad and the City Railroads, and in 
the City Surveyor's Department as Deputy Surveyor. 

None of our citizens has led a life of more activity and 
usefulness than General Blanchard. Equally noted in 
military and <:-ivil life, he will never fail to be mentioned as 
one who has done the State good service, and his works and 
the shining record of them, arc of a character to resist the 
corroding influence of Time. Of unobtrusive manners, his 
sole ambition seems to have been to perform all the duties 
devolving on him a.s the head of a family, a private citizen, 
and a member of the Commonwealth, constantly employed 
in the Public Service. His habits of temperance have 
preserved his health and strength, and, though past the 
prime of life, he is ready for any enterprise, and capable of 
any. 




THE claim ot the Shakespeare Chib for public favor is based 
on its usefulness to the community, and hence deserves the 
attention of all who have an interest in its wehare. 

Members of the Louisiana Histrionics and Crescent Dramatic Associations are 
requested to meet on Sunday. Marcli 17, 18G7, at 10 o'clock, a.m., at No. 2G Commer- 
cial Place (up stairs), for tlie purpose of consolidating and forming a permanent or- 
ganization. By request of MANY FEIENDS. 

The above notice, published by G. H. Braughn. Esq., who had 
at various times been President of tlie Association nientioneil, 
bioU!;ht too'ether at the place indicated, Messrs, Braunhu, T, 
O'Xcil, Mark (JRourke, F, O. Chamberlain and Peter Hart, and 
the Shakespeare Club was created. 

Profiting by their ante-bellum experience, the club rosohed 
that their theatrical entertainments should be private, and the ex- 
penses borne by its members. JIeetiuo< were frequently held 
tliereafter. and to tlie rolls were, from time to time, added the 
names of some of the most prominent young men of this cit)-. 

On the Sth of May, 18G7, the club, which then numbered about 
fifty mi'nil)ci-. adopted a constitution and by-laws, and was thor- 
ouglilv ornanized bv the election of the followini;' ofHcers : — Geo, 
II, Braughn, President; Dr. J, K, AValker. Vice-President; "Wal- 
ter II. Rogers, Secretary ; J, G, Campbell, Treasurer ; and T, 
O'Xeil, Stage Man.ager; nearly every one of whom is still a 
member of the clnb, and Mr. Brauglin has, from yeui- to year, been 
re-elected as its Pi-esidcnt 

On the 2.")th of May, 1807, the club gave its first performance 
at the National Theatre. The play Wiis •■ The Wife ; or, A Tale 
ot Mantua," 

On the 24th June following, tlie second entertainment was given, 
with " Love's Sacrifice" and to '• Paris and Back for £5." On the 



2.3d of tlie same month the third entertainment. " Money " and 
the "• Loan of a Lover," occurred, and the fourth, "• Hamlet," on 
the lOtli August following. This last pertbrmance was given at 
the Opera House to un(iuestionably the largest and finest audi- 
ence that ever filled that Theatre. On tlie 2Sth Angus, "The 
Wife" was repeated, for the relief of the yellow fever sufferers 
of New Iberia, which netted nearly two thousand dollars. On 
the loth of September the last performance of the season was 
given at the old Varieties Theatre, producing "The Rivals," 
Since that time the club have i)roduced " L:u\y of Lyons," " Marble 
Heart." " Dead Heart," " Richilieu " and " Ingomar,'' 

During its existence the club has encountered many difficulties, 
which have been overcome by dint of intelligence and persever- 
ance, its atl'airs have been carefully and judiciously administered, 
until it numbers two hundred members, comprising many of our 
most influential and respectable citizens, has a handsome sum in 
its treasury, and is in every way in a flourishing condition. 

The social feature of the club, diminutive at first, has grown 
into .splendid proportions; so much so that vaster quarters have 
been selected for the accommodation of its members. The Tilton 
Jlansion, at the corner of Canal and Dryades streets, the new 
Joriilc of the club, and represented by the above engraving, has 
been entiiely repaii'ed and refitted in a sumptuous style and 
1 lie ividcd with all the accessories of a modern club-hou.se, which 
make it now the finest in New Orleans, 

The cIuIj is literary, social and dramatic, the latter feature being 
participated in only voluntarily by the " active members," the oth- 
ers being termed " passive " members. It jjossesses a complete mis- 
cellaneous and dramatic library, keeps all the prominent maga- 
zines and periodicals', and presents many other pleasant club-life 
features. 



JEWELL'S CRESCENT CITY ILLUSTRATED. 



HON. J. S. WHITAKER. 



This prominent jurist and lawyer was born at New Bed- 
ford, Mass., March 8, 1817. While he was yet a child, his 
father. Rev. Jonathan Whitaker, I'emoved with his family 
to South Carolina, where he iinited the duties of a clergy- 
man with those of an instructor of youth. A graduate of 
old Harvard, a ripe scholar, and enthii.siastically devoted to 
the training of the j'outhful mind, he i:)resided ovei' the edu- 
cation of his son and fitted him, at an early age, for entrance 
into college. Judge Whitaker, however became, without 
the advantages of a college cour.se, the architect of his own 
fortunes, and few of our own citizens can claim to have been 
better educated. 

He piu'sued the study of law at Charleston S. ('., in tlii> 
office of James L. Petigi'u Esq. one of the most eminent 
members of the legal profession in South Carolina, and lia\- 
ing in 18-38 successfully passed the ordeal of an examina- 
tion before the Judges of the Supreme Coiirt, I'eceived a 
license to pi'actice in the Coui'ts of law of that State as soon 
as he should attain the age of 21 yeai's, which he had not 
then quite reached. In the mean time, and for a consider- 
able period after he came of age, he devoted him.self to the 
occupation of a teacher of youth, taking charge, in the first 
instance, of "the South Carolina School" at Charleston, a 
richly endowed institution and one of much note, but which 
was subsequently supei'ceded by the establishment 
of the " Charleston High School," a classical insti- 
tution, organized by the celebrated Mitehel King, a 
native of Scotland, on the plan of the Edinburgh High 
Schools. Mr. H. M. Burns, a fine scholar and teacher of 
long experience, was appointed to the first, and the subject 
of this notice to the second place in this school, being Latin 
teacher. He held this position, a highly respectable and 
imjDortant one in such a city as (Charleston, for a couple of 
years. 

Anxious now to enter on the profession of his choice, and 
the Charleston bar being crowded to repletion, with 
candidates for its honors and emoluments, he, in 184U, re- 
signed his position and came to New Orleans, and became 
a student in the office of the late Alfred Hannen, one of 
the oldest and most esteemed of our Civil Law Lawyers. 

Mr. John A. Shaw was then establishing the jmblic 
school system in this city, and, among the first teachers of 
the new oi'ganization, we find the name of ,T. S. Whitaker 
enrolled. In the year 184.5 he was invited to take the 
position of English Professor in IManderville College, 
in the Parish of St. Tammany, and sul)sequently became 
President of the Institution. ^Martin (t. Penn, Judge of 
the 8th Judicial District (jourt, found him vegetating in 
this position, and advised lain to return to the profession 
he had seemingly abandoned. On the 22nd of May, 184.5, 
he was admitted, by the Supreme Court, to the practice of 
the law in this State, Judge Martin being then Chief-Jus- 
tice. 

With few clients and little to encourage him, lie was by 
good fortune elei^t(>d Attorney of the then Third Munici- 
pality of New Orleans, and, after a time, entered into part- 
nership with the late John C. Larue, an able Judge, an 



acute advocate, well-versed m every branch of the law. 
This partnership continued for some years, and was a suc- 
cessful one. On the death of his partner, Mr. Whitaker 
remained for many months, laboring in his profession, sin- 
gle handed ; but eventually took as a partner, a former 
student in his office, J. q. A. Fellows, Esq., who remained 
with him till his appointment in 1862, to the position of 
Judge of the 2nd District Court of New Orleans. Mr. 
Whitaker was the first Judge appointed by the military 
(Tovernor, General Shepley, after the occupation of the 
city. While filling this position, lie received fmm the Gov- 
enuu', a commis.sion as Associate .riistice of the Sujueme 
Court, but declined the honor, lieiug unwilling to accept 
such i)osition under Judge Peabod)-, then Judge of the 
V. S. Provisional Court, and holding at the same thae, a 
commission as Chief Judge of the Supreme Court. 

In 18C4, Judge Whitaker resigned the office he held, 
and was subsequently appointed Chief Justice of the Su- 
preme Court, by (Tovernor Hahn, but was not confirmed by 
the Senate. 

From the middle of April to .Inly, 1S(;4, he was employed 
by the then pi-oprieturs of the "Timi's " new.spaper to write 
the leading editorials of that paper. The State Convention 
was then in se.s.sion, and these articles had, it is said, a sa- 
lutary intliience upon their deliberations. 

We find Judge Whittaker, about this time, again ac- 
tively engaged in his profession, taking little part in pol- 
itics, but known to be Republican in his pi-inci]>les, and a 
supporter of the administration. 

The Degree of Master of Arts, recently conferred on him 
by Dartmouth College, (founded by his Grandfather) evinces 
the consideration which is entertained for his scholarship. 
We may add that no gentleman has taken a deeper inter- 
est in the cause of popular education than Judge Whita- 
ker. He was, for several years, one of the most active as 
well as the most popular Directors of the Public Schools in 
this city. 

Dui-ing the late war, Judge W. was an outspoken Union 
man, though on all occasions affording such assistance as 
was in his power, to the citizens of his adopted state. He 
was; in 1 864, .solicited by many influential citizens, to be- 
come candidate for the office of (-rovernor of the State, hut 
declined. 

It is said, liy his friends, and intimates, that his talents 
are eminently judicial, and he is held in higli rei>ute as a 
counsellor and advocate. Many important cases are in- 
trusted to his management. The habits of imlustry, which 
he acquired in youth, still adhere to him in ni.-iture lil'e. 
He is very social and hosjiitable. and. when he entertains 
his friends, displays all thi- (jualitics of the urbane host, 
and abandon ami buoyancy of tlie li'arned jurist enjoving 
a holi lay. 

llis passion for gardening, t'owers and trees, planted, 
trimmed and cultivated with his own hands, is evinced in 
the .spacious and Eden-like groinids that encompass his 
flue residence on Carondalet .street, the interior o/ which 
exhibits, in a rich and costly library, his taste for letters, 
and in all its domestic accompaniments and appointments 
his fondness foi' comfort and eleg.ance. 



JEWELL'S CRESCENT CITY ILLUSTRATED. 



PROFERSOR GRECitORIO CITRTO. 



Professor Gre^'orio ( 'urto is, w,- lielieve, thi' oldest teacher 
of musical composition ami sint;iug now living ic New Or- 
leans, where he arrived in ISod, and where he has resided 
uninterruptedly ever since. Mr. Curto is a native of Sj^ain, 
but received his musical edu ation in Paris, where he was 
admitted at a very early age into the celebrated Singing 
School of Choron, and had for his fellow pui^ils Dnpuy, 
Monpou, Scudo, Marie, Rosina Stoltz, and a host of other 
musical and artistic celebrities. In one of his most charm- 
ing feiiilletons, published about fifteen j'ears ago, Scudo 
relates a visit paid by Choron to the Minister of the House- 
hold (under whose supeiintendence all artistic and opei'atie 
mattei's weie tlnni placed), in company with three of his 
favorite pupils, his object being to give to that official a 
practical dcmonsti'atian of the efficiency and success of his 
method of teaching. The Duke De Larochefoucauld, tho 
then Minister, was a man of taste and artistic accomplish- 
ments, and so well pleased was he with the performances 
of Choron's pupils tliat he foi-thwith granted a libei'al ap- 
propriation for the support of the school. Young Cui-to 
was one of the scholars who figured upon the occasion, 
Dupuy and Scudo completing the trio. Before he had 
completed his fourteenth year, Mr. Curto received the ap- 
l)oiiitment of organist of the Cathedral of Soissons, which 
he i'elin(piished one year later to resume the study of 
miisical composition with his old teacher, Choron, acting 
at the same time as " Maitre de Chapelle" at the church of 
the "Sorbonne," thi-n a favorite place of worship for the 
Parisian b)'rfi/ iiinmli-. In 1S8(I, Mr. Curto made a highly 
successful <l('hi(t a\ the Italian Opera in Rossini's " Gazza 
Ladra," and shortly aftei' was engaged as primo hasno ani- 
tanle by Mr. Davis, then manager of the Orleans Theatre. 
In this capacity ^h\ Curto remained here for two seasons, 
performing with urcut success in " La Dame Blanche," 
" L'ltaliana in Algirri," '• Anna Bolina," the " Huguenots,' 
and also acting o<-casionally in Racine and Corneille's clas- 
sical pieces, in connection with the distinguished trafie- 
dieiiiif, Madame (.'losel, whom he subsequently married. 
In 1S33, Mr. ("urto left the stage to di>vote himself entirely 
to teaching and musical composition. Of his very great 
success as a teacher of vocal music no better proof is 
needed than the fact that two of his pupils, Mile. Minnie 
Hauck and Mme. Fleury Urban have alnnxdy achieved a 
Eui'opean I'eputation, and that anothor one, Mne. Diu-and 
Hitchcock, bids fair to obtain very so n a no h ss eAjviable 
position as a lyrical artist. As a composer, Mr. Curto 
has written many operas and oi'atorios, several of which 
have been pei-formed with great succ(!ss in this coun- 
try and in Europe. Among the latter may \m cited 
" Lc nouvel Ermite," three acts, performed in ls:!-2; 
" Amour ct l''olic," thri'c acts (1S:{4) ; " Sardanapale," two 
acts and thi'cc (ablcaux (1S:!S) ; " L'Heritiere," two acts ; 
" La Mort dr .(caune D'Arc," two acts ; " Le Lepreup," a 
dramati(; seem', the words liy Placide ( 'anonge, and " La 
Mort d'Abel," ()i-atciri(i, composed in IMiCi. We woulil ex- 
ceed the limits of this sketch were we to (^numerate; Mr. 
Curto's church nuisic, in which we find throe Stabats, one 



intended exclusively for female voices, over fifty Masses, 
ten of which have been published, and more than two hun- 
dred motets solos, duetts, trios, quintettes, etc. His Stabat 
No. 1 was lately performed with great success at the church 
of St. Eustache in Paris, and his grand Mass of the Im- 
macnilate Conception, with full orchestra, was repeated 
three times in the same church. Professor Curto is the 
organist of St. Anne's Church, on St. Philip street, and 
still devotes a portion of his time to a select class of pupils 
who have prevailed upon him to give them the benefit of 
his invaluable services as a teacher of vocal music. As a 
master of this art, Mr. Curto occupies a very high rank in 
this country, and as far as this city is concerned, there is 
no one, with the single exception of Mr. Eugene Prevost, 
who can dispute the palm with him as a professor and 
composer. 



NAPIER BARTLETT, E8Q. 



Mr. Napier Bartlett for many years connected with the 
pi'ess of this city, and now the proprietor of the (JUuhonw 
Advocate, may be said to have inherited the editorial. 
His father, Myron Bartlett, established, fifty years ago, the 
Macon Telegraph, at the j)resent day one of the most pros- 
perous in Georgia, and his uncle, Cosara Emir Bartlett, is 
spoken of in " Spai'ks' Fifty Years' Recollections " as the 
leader of his party in that State. 

Mr. Napier Bartlett graduated at Andover, Mass., in 
18.54, and had for his fellow students Edwin L. Jewell, 
Tobias Gibson, and many other. Southern youth, who have 
since obtained honorable preeminence. His first essay as 
an editor, was in connection with a paper then pulilished 
by a literary society, and to the management of which he 
was elected by his classmates. 

After being admitted to the bar in Georgia, and grad- 
uating in the Law Department of the University of Loui- 
siana, Mr. Bartlett published the Atlanta: (Confederacy, 
two years before the name was applied to the seceded 
States, and was, for a short time, connected with the At- 
lanta InfeUigencer. 

Having fixed his abode in New Orleans a short time 
before the war, he contributed to the Crescent a number 
of stories and sketches, and upon the breaking out of hos- 
tilities a number of letters from camp, which were exten- 
sively copied. He went out as a volunteer in the Wash- 
ington Artillery, a batallion made up of the best young 
men of the city, and remained with it until the close of the 
war. A reminiscence of army life in Virginia still I'emains 
in a story which was written on the straw of a soldier's 
tent, under the name of " Clarimonde." 

Since the war Mr. Bartlett has been successively con- 
nected with the Soutliern Star, Crescent, Bulletin, and 
Now Orleans Times. Besides the work before nienti<med 
he is the author of stories of the "Crescent City," the 
entire edition of which was almost entirely sold the first 
week of its i)ublicatiou. A more extended work of a some- 
what similar chaiMctci- will shortly appear from his yru. 



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JEWELL'S CRESCENT CITY ILLUSTRATED. 



REV. THEODORE CLAPP. 



Mr. ClaI'P was a native of the State of Mass,-icliusetts. 
He pursued hi.s elassical course at Yale ('allege, and com- 
pleted his theological studies at Aiidover Seminary — an 
institution preeminently evangelical. Such was the type 
of his omi theology, when, at an early age, he came into 
the Valley of the Mississippi, and commenced his clerical 
career under the auspices of the Pi-esbytery of that State. 
Thence, upon the death of the Rev. Dr. Larned, he came 
to this city, accepting a call from the First Picsliytcrian 
Church to become its pastor. 

It appears that in the year IS^il, or thereabouts, an en- 
tire revolution took place in the views he entertained on 
religious doctrines and discij)line. These views assiuued a 
particular shape, but no particular name. It was under- 
stood that he had become a liberal thinker on subjects of in- 
finite scope and moment, and, had he not, at the same time, 
possessed a logical mind, enriched with varied learning, 
his renunciation of one creed and adoption of another, 
would have been a matter of comparatively little conse- 
quence to the public, or to the great and most respectable 
Presbyterian body j)olitie, with which he was associated. 
It was because he was " a master in Lsi-ael " — a controlling 
mind in the ehuich, that a radical change in his opinions 
produced a pi'ofound sensation, which culminated in a 
serious rupture of that chiiich^ and finally led to the exclu- 
sion of Mr. Clapj), and about one half of the congregation, 
composing his special friends and adherents, from its sacred 
preciuts and associations. 

At the very moment when the excluded dissentients from 
orthodoxy were " without a local habitation and even a 
name," the late Judah Touio, Esq., an afliuent and libeial 
minded Israelite, who had purchased, singularly enough at 
sheriffs sale, the church which then stood at the corner of 
St. Charles and Gravier streets, gave the use of it for an 
unlimited period, oi', which was the same thing, for lunety- 
nine }ears, to Mr. Clapp and his congregation, for a per- 
manent place of worship. 

It was a large and commodious edifice ; and the popu- 
larity and eloquence of Mr. Clapp were such, that it was 
soon filled with hearers, even to ovei'flowing. Mr. Clapp 
was in the habit of lenting out the pews himself, and the 
proceeds, thence arising, constituted his income, which was 
not only adequate but large, even for a great and opulent 
city. He had the entire control of the .society and its 
affairs, like a monarch in and over his own domaui, and it 
was known, for a considerable time, only as Mr. Clapp's 
Society and Mr. ('lajjp's Church. Of the hundreds of in- 
dividuals wh(j reached New Orleans on Saturday evenings, 
coming from vai-ious States scattered along the banks of 
the great Father of AVaters, the majority, on Sunday morn- 
ing, would seek out and attend Mr. Clapp's chui'ch. Many 
would inquire, but nobody could infonn them, with cer- 
tainty, what were the doctrines inculcated in Clapp's 
clniich. The truth is, he dwelt more on precepts and facts 
than doctrines, and, when he handled the latter, {which he 
seldom did) wished to have the whole field of theological 
speculation open before him, in order to select " here a little 



and there a little, line upon line and precept upon precept," 
as was suggested by his particular subject, the special oc- 
cision, or the character of his audience, composed, it might 
be, of -men of all creeds, for the time being. 

The divine authority of Revelation, of Jesus, man's rela- 
tion to (jod, the universal Father, to the human race, in- 
dividiially and socially considered, to life with its fleeting 
hours, to eternity with its countless ages, to duty in its 
multii)lied forms and extensive relations, these were his 
favorite themes, on which he dwelt with abounding power 
and touching fervor, now arresting attention by the force 
of his logic, anon opening the fountain of tears by his 
touching appeals, drawing his illustrations from the inspired 
volume, from the book of Nature, from himian history, 
from the works of the poets and philosophers, and, more 
especially, from the course of events in his own day, of 
which he was <ui acute observei', and alwajs an independent, 
outspoken critic. 

In 1S38, the legislature chartered Mr. Clapp's church, 
under the name of "the First Congregational Unitarian 
church in the city and parish of New Orleans." The cor- 
poration was to exist for twenty years, and had twenty 
corporators, viz : Samuel McCutchen ; Jacob Baldwin ; 
James McReynolds ; Richard Davidson ; Henry Babcock ; 
Peter Laidlaw ; John D. Bein ; Stephen Henderson ; 
Charles Lee ; P. S. Newton ; Wm. (]. Bowers ; Henry 
Carleton ; James H. Leverieh ; Wm. ti. Hewes ; Isaac G. 
Preston ; Benj. Story ; Henry Lockett ; J. W. Lee ; Joshua 
Baldwin : Abijah Fisk. The act was apjjroved February 
2<i, 1^^8^!. 

In 11S51, the chiu'ch building which the society had 
occupied twenty years, through the liberality of Mr. 
Touro, without cost, was burned in the conflagration 
which, at the same time, reduced to ashes the stately and 
magnificent St. Charles hotel, which .stood in close prox- 
imity to it. Mr. Touro again came forward and gave Mr. 
Clapp another church, which he had pvirchased, and which 
was originally built for the Baptists. It was also situ.ated 
on St. Charles street, a little below the present edifice, and 
served for the temi^orary accommodation of the society 
till a larger and moi-e commodious chuich could be built. 
Mr. Clapp officiated in it four or five years. 

In 18.58, the congregation resolved to build a church 
edifice, and to organize a society. A charter was drawn 
up for the purjjose, but was never signed, adopted, or ap- 
proved, by the District Attorney, or recorded as the law 
requii'es. 

Samuel Bell, Henry D. Richardson, John D. Bien, H. S. 
Buckner, J. J. Day, A. M. Holbrook, Samuel Stewart, 
Isaac Bridge, John Leeds, Christian Roselius, Henry Ren- 
shaw, Lewis Soalles and Thomas A. Adams, were named as 
members in this inchoate chaiter. It purports to bear 
date March 17th, 18.58. The title to the property bears 
date March -Idth, 18.58. 

The church I'eferred to, which is one of the most ele- 
gant edifices of. the kind in the city, was finished in 1855. 
There was no dedication. Mr. Clapp was oj^posed to it. 
He would never consent to have the society called by 
the name of any particular denomination. As indicative 



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of the nature of the organization, it was styled " Congi-e- 
gational or Independent." The ediliee was called " the 
Church of the Messiah." 

Mr. ClaiJp officiated only a few months in the new 
edifice, in consequence of failing Iiealth ; but his congre- 
gation, greatly attached to him, on his retiring and remov- 
ing to Louisville, Kentucky, were in the habit of contribut- 
ing liberally to his support up to the time of his death, 
which occurred in 18G7. On tliat occasion, tlie Rev. Dr. 
Elliott, of St. Louis, Missouri, then on a visit here, de- 
livered an appropriate and eloquent discourse, which w;i.s 
listened to with profoiind sensibility, by a thronged audi 
ence, composed of per.sons of all denominations, who hold 
the memory of the deceased in the highest esteem and ever 
veneration. 



THE OPERA HOUSE. 



Althouuh its population was scarcely equal to fifty thou- 
sand inhabitants, during the gi-eater part of that period, 
New Orleans enjoys the distinction of being the only city 
upon this continent which has supported, for more than 
half a century, a regular Opera Company. 

There were two French theatres, one in St. Peter street, 
and another in St. Philip sti-eet, near Royal, whii.-h wei'e in 
operation from 18(in to Is 11. At the latter period, Mr. John 
Davis, a French emigre from St. Domingo, built the Oi-leans 
theatre, on the square, now partly occupied by the First 
District Court, near the (^'atholic Cathedi-al, and the adjoin- 
ing court buildings, and engaged in Paris the first regulai- 
Oj)era Company that ever came into this country. The en- 
terprise proved a highly successful one, and upon the death 
of Mr. John Davis the management of the theatre devolved 
upon his son, Mr. Piere Davis, (now residing- in France), 
by whom it was most ably conducted during a peridd uf 
over twenty-five years. It was under his managcunMit that 
those twin stars of the Parisian theatrical wnrld. Mnies. 
Fanny Ellsler and Damoreau, were first seen and heard in 
this city, and that the great master-pieces of Rossuii, Meyei- 
beer, Auber, Donizette, Hei'old, Mozart, Spontini and Me- 
hul became familiar as household words to tin; highly-re- 
fined audiences which crowded the small but elegant and 
comfortable Opera house, which, after the one originally 
erected by Mr. John Davis, had been burnt down, wa> re- 
built the next year. 

Mr. Varney, the author of •' Le Chant des tiirondiers." 
and afterwarils l(;adei- of " Des Eouties Parisiens," the late 
Eugene Prevo.'^t, (whose sketch may be found in another 
part of this book), Mr. John, and sin<'e the war Mons. E. 
('alabresi, have successively wieldeil the hdtnH of leader of 
the orchestra. 

In Is.Mi, Mr. ('has. Boudous(piie, having .some years be- 
fore sueceede<l Mr. Davis as manager of the Orleans theatre, 
the building was bought at the judicial sale of the estate of 
John Mid)onough by Mr. Parlange, who failed to agree with 
Mr. Boudous<piie as to tlu; lease of the theatre, whereupon 
a new i-ompany was formed, and the present splendid edi- 
fice on Bourbon stn-i't was built by Messrs. (iallier & Ester- 



brook, architects for the Opera House Association. 

It was upon the boards of this theatre that the charming 
Adelina Patti made her debut in Meyerbeer's '' Pardon de 
Plojrmel," on which occa.siou the writer of tliis sketch re- 
members with pardonable pride and pleasru-e that he was 
among the few theatiical ciitics of the day who at once re- 
cognized and proclaimed her ti'anscendent merits as a vocal- 
ist and actress. There, too, the dying notes of another 
great Italian artist, Madame Frezzolini, were heard just 
upon the eve of the great civil war, which, shortly aftei-, leil 
to the temporary suspension of all theatrical enterprises in 
Xew Oi'leans. 

On the return of peace, a French strojling company, under 
Mr. Marcelin Alhaiza, proving highly successful, a number 
of subscribers furnished him at the close of the season with 
the means of engaging a complete dramatic and operatic 
company. The result was most unfornate, Mr. Marcelin 
Alhaiza having died on the eve of his company's departure 
from France, and the latter being shipwrecked and lost on 
the steamer in which they had taken passage fi'om New 
York to this j)ort. 

Mr. Paul Alhaiza, the brother of the deceased manager, 
collected a few artists who had remained here, and engaged 
some of the members of another strolling' company whose 
performances at the old Orleans theatre had been brought 
to a close in 1867, by the Ijiu-ning of that edifice. In 1868, 
he attempted, in partnership with Mr. Calabresi, to revive 
the opera, but the attempt proving unsuccessful, a new Opera 
House Association was formed, composed of leading capital- 
ists and mei'chant.s of this city, by whom the opera house 
was purchased, and liberal pro\'ision was made for the en- 
gagement of a first-class opera company. Mr. E. Calabresi, 
was by thi^ni ajipointed manager and leailer, at a very high 
salary, but altlxjugh he succeeded in engaging two oi- three 
singers, of talent and I'ejjutation, such as Michot, Castehnary 
and Dumestre, most of the other artists brought over by 
him jirovcd lamentably deficient, and after two seasons the 
member.-^ of the Opera House Association found themselves 
in debt after having expended the whole of their capital, 
and were therefore compelled to go into licpiidation. 

This hap)>ened at the close of the season of 1871-1!, when 
Mr. Placitle Canonge — a distinguished Creole journalist and 
playwright, who had already given evidence of his tact and 
good taste in the selection of a dramatic' company foi- the 
old Orleans theatre, obtained quite late in the .summer a 
lease of the Opera House for the winter of 187:2-3. The 
dramatic company brought over by M. Canonge has proved 
eminently successful, Mmes. Miller, Beauvais, Protal and 
Gosliu, and M. M. Molina, A i-i.ste, Deschamps, Schaub, and 
Seipiore, the li^ading comic and dramatic actors, having 
pi-oved very acceptable to the public. 

A strong (effort is now being made by some of our U'ading 
citizens to form another Opera House A-sociation, with the 
vimv of enabling Mr. Canonge to engage an Opeia Company 
mostly of the past reputation of our lyrical stage — a task 
for which no one is better qualified than he is, and in which 
we most heartily wish him to succeed, as he can not fail to 
do if \u' is supported as he deserves to be by the " solid 
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ALEXANDER HAY, ESQ. 



Alexandeii Hay, Esq., President of the St. Andrews So- 
ciety of New Orleans, was born ou the 2Gth of February, 
1832, in Stranraen, a small sea-port town in Wigtonshire, 
Scotland, near the seat of the Earl of Stair, of " the Mas- 
sacre of Glencoe " notoriety. Mr. Hay was educated at 
the old University of Glasgow, and, at the age of twenty- 
two, after an apprenticeship of three years, took the man- 
agement of the large Tannery of Messrs. Thomas Pitling 
& Co., of Port Glasgow, which position he filled for eight 
years, until compelled by ill health to relinquish it. 

From the time of his leaving the tan-yard till his de- 
pai'ture to the United States, he traveled over the larger 
portion of Eui'ope in pursuit of health, but seeking that 
blessing in vain. His physician then advised him to take 
passage on a sailing vessel and try a warmer climate. 
Complying with this i-ecommendation, he set sail for the 
port of New Orleans, and by the time of his arrival here 
in June, 186-5, after a long voyage, found his health com- 
pletely restored. It was not in his nature to remain inac- 
tive. His old Occupation among hides and leather had 
great attractions for him, and he thought there was a good 
opening here in that line of business. He was first em- 
ployed as a clerk merely, but, in the course of a year from 
the time of his ariival, was able to set up business on his 
own account, when he established (taking into partnership 
a native of New Orleans) the firm of Hay & Mehle (50 
Commerce and 120 St. Peters streets), one of the largest 
houses, if not the largest, in the trade of Hides and Wool 
in the city of New Orleans, and which has been exceedingly 
successful. 

Mr. Hay fiu'nishes an instance, not uncommon among his 
countrymen, in which the character of the industiious, per- 
severing tradesman, is fully blended with that of the scholar 
and the gentleman. It is to the union of such characteristic 
traits (and which are worthy of all imitation where they 
are attainable) that he is largely indebted for his prosperity 
and success. 

Mr. Hay was married in Bannockburn to a lady of that 
memorable village. Miss Miller, by whom he has two chil- 
dren alive, a son and a daughter. He had the misfortune 
to lose two fine boys in 1867. 

In November, 1869, he was first elected President of the 
St. Andrews Society, and has had the imusual distinction 
conferred upon him of being annually reelected the Presi- 
dent of that most honorable and beneficent association 
ever since. 

He is Agent for the Anchor Line of Trans-Atlantic 
Steamships, running twice a week between New York and 
Glasgow. This Company has a fleet of thirty-six steamers 
afloat, and seven more on the stocks. The career of the 
founder of this Line is somewhat remarkable, and affords 
evidence that colossal fortunes are often made in the Old 
World as well as the New. Forty years ago, three little 
Scotch boys started life together, owning first a sailing 
smack only ; gradually rising in the gradation of tonnage 
and rig, until they had served in schooners, brigs, barques, 
ships, and were conversant with every detail in connection 
with these different types of vessels. These little Scotch 



boys rapidly rose to be the world-wide known firm of 
Handyside & Henderson of Gla.sgow, the owners of the 
Anchor Line, a fleet that cost $180,000,000. 

REV. GEORGE H. DEERE. 



This highly esteemed pastor of the Unitarian Church in 
this city was born at Oswego, N. Y., September 4th, 1827. 
Ho was the son of an ar-tist who entertained very liberal 
notions on the subject of Religion, took great pauis in the 
personal training of his son. Owing to a defect in his eye- 
sight which became apparent in his infancy, his education 
was necessarily domestic. 

The mother of young Deere was a Methodist, and as 
mothers are apt to exercise a controlling influence on the 
minds of their childi'en, and do much towards shaping their 
character and opinions, it is not surprising that, shut out 
measurably from the world by his misfortune, and conse- 
quently addicted much to meditation and reflection, the 
youth should have adopted the maternal creed. In 184.3, 
however, " a change came over the spu'it of his di'eam," 
and at Brooklyn, N. Y., to which city he had removed, and 
where liberal views of theology had obtained a lodgment, 
he became an Universalist, the paternal recollections and 
influences now prevailing over the maternal. 

Inclination and cu'cumstances pointed him to the church 
as the dej)artment best fitted for him. He, accordingly, 
demoted himself to the study of theology, first under the 
tuition of Rev. Dr. Sawyer, now Packard Professor of The- 
ology at Tuft's College, Boston, and, afterwards, under 
that of Rev. Dr. Thayer, of Brooklyn, N. Y., now editor of 
the Universalist Quarterly, and, in due time, became a 
licentiate, and ultimately an ordained minister of the 
gospel. 

After a short ministry at Danbury, Conn., and Warren, 
Mass., he was settled as pastor at Brattleboro, Vt., where 
he remained seven years. Removing to Melrose, Mass., in 
September, 1860, and finding the climate of the New Eng- 
land sea coast prejudicial to the health of his wife, he ac- 
cepted a call, at the close of a year, to a pastorate at Shell- 
burne Falls, Mass., which continued six years. In Octo- 
ber, 1867, he accepted an invitation to the charge of a par- 
ish at La Crosse, Wis., whence, after a ministry of four 
years, in October, 1871, he removed to New Orlean.s. The 
parishes which he has hitherto served have been in fellow- 
ship with the Universalist branch of the Liberal Christian 
Church ; and he has, thus far, been very acceptable as well 
as useful in his ministrations. The society over which he 
now presides, and which was very large under the ministry 
of the late Rev. Dr. Clapp, (but which declined after the 
war,) has taken a new start, and seems likely, under its 
new auspices to recover much of its former strength and 
influence. 

Mr. Deere, like Dr. Clapp, is an extemporaneous preacher, 
and never writes a discourse before its delivery. His mind 
is clear, orderly, and didactic, and his manner seiious and 
impressive without rhetorical display. His conversational 
powers are considerable, and whenever he appears in 
social circles with his intellectual and accomplished wife, 
he throws a certain charm over them. 



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REV. HENRY SAMUEL JACOBS. 



Minister of the Hebrew Congregation, " Dispersed of 
Judah," was born at Kingston, Jamaica, in the British 
West Indies, on the 2-2d day of March, 18:i7. Exhibiting 
a decided inclination for the ministry from his youth, he 
early qualified himself for the sacred calling, beginning his 
theological studies under the Rev. Moses N. Nathan, who 
was subsequently the first minister of the Hebrew Congre- 
gation in this city, to which Mr. Jacobs Ls now attached. 
After officiating for three years as lay reader, he was, in 
his twenty-first year, placed in Charge of the small congre- 
gation, " Habitation of Peace," at Spanish Town and Ja- 
maica, till he was called to fill the important office of min- 
ister in the Kingston Congregation, " Gates of Righteous- 
ness." 

His health having become impaired by too studious and 
sedentary a life, and feeling an irrepressible yearning to 
make the United States his home, he left his native island 
on the 3d of January, 1854, and reached New York the 
following week. His reputation as a zealou.s, devout, and 
indefatigable minister of his faith had preceded him, and 
this, together with the demand for English preachers 
(which has since assumed the lai-gest proportions,) led to 
his receiving more than one call, terminating in his accep- 
tance of that of the Portuguese Hebrew Congregation of 
Richmond, Va., the duties of which he assumed about a 
fortnight later. Here he labored successfully for nearly 
f&ai years, when the pulpit of the Congregation, " Shear- 
ith Israel," of Charleston, S. C, then one of the largest and 
most influential in the Union, having become vacant, was 
tendered to him in the most flattering terms ; but loath to 
leave his Richmond flock, he eventually consented to 
change his field of labor, only on the urgent advice of his 
numerous friends, who believed that his efforts in the holy 
cause would be more valuable in the wider ministrations to 
which he was so earnestly invited. 

In this position he continued successful in his clerical 
charge, gaining many friends and winning golden opinions 
from all sorts of men— but " grim-visaged war" had over- 
taken the land — the battle of Secessionville had been 
fought — the " swamp-angel " had commenced shelling the 
chief city of South Carolina, and its streets were deserted 
of their many familiar faces. The Synagogue was " under 
fire," and the congregation had dispersed. 

In this emergency, the Board of Trustees suggested to 
Mr. Jacobs to move to Columbia, where a large part of his 
flock had taken refuge, and he accordingly proceeded 
thither and organized public worship. This .state of affairs 
continued till February 17th, 1865, when the Union Army, 
under General Shenuan, reduced that beautiful inland city, 
the capital of the State, to a heap of ruins. 

Sharing in tiie general calamity Mr. Jacobs lost all his 
earthly possessions, and escaped from his burning home- 
stead with but the clothing on his back, finding temporary 
shelter with his family under the roof of a friend in the 
suburbs of the city, till opportunity offered of nidviiig to 
Augusta, Ga., the nearest point of refuge and salcty. l""(ir 
about a year he continued there still ministering in his 
holy avocation. 



Peace, meanwhile, had been restored; but it was des- 
tined that he should not resume his clerical charge at 
Charleston ; for the Synagogue there had been so injui-ed 
by the shelling of the city that it could not be used in its 
then condition ; whilst the few members of the congi-ega- 
tion who remained were too impoverished either to repair 
it oi- provide the necessaries to continue public worship. 
Hence he had to resign the office he held there notwith- 
standing the attachment he felt to his Charleston flock. 

Receiving several calls at this time he elected to a cept 
the one coming from .this city, which he now fills as minis- 
ter of the Hebrew Congregation, " Dispersed of Judah." 

Mr. Jacobs belongs to the conservative party of his de- 
nomination, which, whilst recognizing the necessity for 
some legitimate concessions to the scientific progress and 
inquiring spirit of oiu' times, and the social condition of the 
country in which we live, yet respects the pious usages of 
antiquity, and holds firmly and tuicompromisingly to the 
fundamental principles of Judaism, thus taking the inter- 
mediate position between Radical Refonn and ultra-Ortho- 
doxy. 

Having been educated as a teacher, he has given much 
thought and labor to the cause of education. In his eight- 
eenth year he was placed in charge of a Public School in 
his native coimtry, and subsequently elected principal of 
the consolidated Hebrew schools. He was also engaged in 
the same duties in Richmond, Va., Columbia, S. C, and 
Augusta, Ga. In this city, at the establishment of " The 
Hebrew Education Society," he was its first President 
and afterwards became Superintendent, — a po.st which he 
has only recently relinquished. His interest in education 
has been most pronounced, and is his marked character- 
istic, and, it is expected, will continue to be exercised for 
the general welfare of the community. 

None of our ministers, of any denomination, are more 
distinguished for learning, eloquence, and urbanity of man- 
ners, than the Rev. ISIr. Jacobs ; and none exerts a more 
de(;ided and high-toned i nfluence in the various circles of 
society in which he moves. 



MARKETS. 



The markets are a prominent feature in a description of 
New Orleans. They are numerous, and dispersed, to suit 
the convenience of the citizens. The prices of many arti- 
cles they offer are very fluctuating. Not dearer, however, 
on an average, than in New York. Stall-fatted meats arc 
not so usual here as at the North, preference being given 
to the grass- fed. The mutton has no equal in America. 
Poultry and fi.sh are fine ; and vegetables, except potatoes, 
are abundrjnt, and speak well for the soil that produced 
them. Fruit, from the West Indies and our own W is 
not only plenty but of the best kind. The regulations are 
excellent, and are .strictly enforced by officeis appoint(;d 
for that purpose. The greatest market day is Sunday, 
during the morning. The traveler, who leaves the cnty 
without visiting one of the popular markets on Sunday 
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DAVID BIDWELL. 



In the theatrical world no name is more familiar or bet- 
ter known than that of Mr. D. Bidwell. Recognized 
throughout the country as one of the most enterprising 
and successful managers of public entertainments of the 
present day, he has achieved this reputation in a compara- 
tively short space of time. Embarking in life at an early 
age he was thrown upon his own resources and forced to 
carve out his own future. That his career in life so far has 
been eminently successful, is fullly established by his 
present influential and wealthy position. Mr. Bidwell was 
born in the town of Stuyvesant, Columbia Co., N. Y., in 
the year 1821. He was educated at the Kinderhook Semi- 
nary, and, after leaving school, joined his father, Alex. 
Bidwell, who was at that time commander of a steamer on 
the Hudson River. After a tenn of service as clerk iipon 
his father's boats, he became the proprietor of the Emi)ire 
House, just in the rear of the Astor House, a place famous 
in the days of the Presidential Campaign of 1844, the year 
in which the noted Empire Club was organized and located 
at this place. In 1846, Mr. Bidwell came to New Orleans 
and engaged in business with his brother, Mr. H. Bidwell, 
as ship chandlers, under the style of H. Bidwell & Co. In 
1852 the partnership was dissolved, when Mr. David Bid- 
well became the proprietor of the Phcenix House. In 1853 
Ml'. Bidwell took charge of the property now known as 
the "Academy of Music," and acted as agent for the pro- 
prietor in renting it to combination theatrical companies 
until 185(5, when, in partnership with Spaulding & Rogers, 
he became the proprietor and manager of this theatre, and 
has continued to control and direct it until the present 
time, when he is the sole proprietor. 

Mr. Bidwell's theatrical associations have not been con- 
fined exclusively to New Orleans. In 1867 he organized 
and took charge of the American Champion Circus Com- 
pany and gave a series of performances in Europe, which 
created a great furore in the amusement circles of Paiis. 
In connection with Dr. Spaulding, Mr. Bidwell also built 
the Olympic Theatre, in St. Louis, in 1867-8, and in 186!), 
with the same partners, he became interested in the New 
Memphis Theatre and the Mobile Theatre. Besides the 
present management of the "Academy of Music," Mr. Bid- 
well is the sole owner of the author's playwright of the 
Black Crook for a large portion of the country, and with 
one of the largest traveling combination comi^anies ever 
organized, is making the tour of the United States, giving 
representations of this gorgeous spectacle. One secret of 
Mr. Bidwell's success is his thorough knowledge of the 
people of New Orleans and the peculiarities of their tastes, 
acquired by a long residence in then- midst. Knowing 
their fancy he has always exerted himself to the utmost to 
please and gratify them. Money, time and labor have all 
been freely used to give eclat to every entertainment pre- 
pared by Mr. Bidwell for the citizens of New Oi-leans. 
That his efforts in this particular have been abundantly 
successful, is evidenced by the fact that he stands in the 
front rank of his profession, and is deemed the most suc- 
cessful theatrical manager in the country. Whilst caterino- 



to the amusement-loving portion of the people, Mr. Bid- 
well is not unmindful of the general interests and welfare 
of the entii-e city. His contributions for public works and 
improvements, for railroads and other enterprises, are 
liberal and numerous. Having accumulated a fortune here, 
thoroughly identified with every interest of the city, it is 
quite natural and proper that he should feel a deep concern 
for the future prosperity of the Crescent City and contri- 
bute, all in his power, to aid in the good work of develop- 
ing its wonderful resources. In this respect he plays the 
part of a valuable and useful citizen, and as such com- 
mands the respect of the community of which he has been 
an exemj)lary member. 



JAMES BARRY PRICE, 



Was born in Pittsylvania County, Va., January Iflth, 
1832. His ancestors were prominent in the Revolution, 
and from them were directly descended the late distin- 
guished soldiers and citizens, Generals Sterling and Thos. 
L. Price of Missouri. Among his not distant collateral 
relations were the late Admiral Barry. Mr. Price emi- 
grated with his parents to Middle Tennessee at an early 
age. Few men diuing the last thirty years have been 
more prominent in the politics and business interests of 
that State than his father. Col. M. A. Price ; while on his 
mother's side he is connected with the Sanders, Caruthers, 
Cahal, Donelson and Gentry families, than which none have 
been more conspicuous in the public affairs of Tennessee 
during the last two generations. Mr. Price has enjoyed 
all the advantages of wealth, education and travel, visiting- 
all Europe, Egypt, Nubia, Arabia, Palestine, and the re- 
mote East as the compaf/non de voyaf/e of the late Lucius 
C. Duncan of New Orleans, and the distinguished and Hon. 
Edwin H. Ewing of Tennessee. His travels in America 
are probably more extended than those of any man in the 
States. He married and settled in St. Mary Parish in 1853, 
since which time he has been extensively engaged in agii- 
ciilture, commerce and transportation. In transportation 
of the mails by steamboat and stage coach he had been 
more extensively engaged than any man in the South. He 
was one of the few bold enterprising spirits who established 
the Great Overland Mail Line of Stages connecting St. 
Louis and Memphis with San Diego and San Francisco, 
which practically demonstrated the feasibility of the exist- 
ing and projected lines of travel and mail carriage across 
the Continent. Mr. Price has not confined himself to any 
specialty, but has taken a leading part in many enterprises 
with a large measui'c of success. Duiing the war he and 
his partners, F. P. Lanyer and G. H. Giddiux, conti-olle(t 
nearly all the stage transportation in the Trans-Mississippi 
Depai-tment, through which means incalculable sei-vice was 
rendered to the people and soldiers, thousands of whom 
were transported to and from their homes gratuitously. 
Mr. Piice more than once was offered high militai-y i-ank, 
by reason of gi-eater usefulness in the Civil Service of the 
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the war he enjoyed the confidence of the Confederate rulers 
to the fullest extent. Mr. Price is accredited, by many 
familiar with his record, as having contributed as much 
material aid to the Confederacy as any other man in the 
South, though he was originally opposed to Secession. At 
the close of the war he at once went to work to aid in re- 
storing the prostrate interests of Louisiana, especially in 
his own section, as the local papers abundantly testify. In 
1 806, in connection with those well known merchants, T. 
1). Hine of St. Mary, and G. Tupper of Charleston, S. C, 
ho established the commercial firm in New Orleans of Price, 
Hi lie & Tupper. In 1867 he, Gen. Hersey of Maine, 
Robert Hare, and T. M. Simmons, and others of New Or- 
leans, organized the Louisiana Petroleum and Mining Com- 
pany of Calcasieu Parish, of which Mr. Price was elected 
President. In 1868 he induced his kinsman, Gen. T. L. 
Price, and Chas. P. Chauteau of Missouri, to lease and work 
the Avery Salt Mine, the firm of Price, Hine & Tupper 
being agents of the same. In 1867 he was appointed by 
Gov. Wells Special Commissioner to the Paris Exposition, 
and he doubtless deserves a considerable share of credit for 
the distinction which Louisiana there enjoyed. These 
things are all mentioned here to indicate that the subject 
of this sketch is one of that active, bold, enterprising, and 
intelligent class of men who are required to revivify Lou- 
isiana, and whose acts would all be vitalizing and benefi- 
cial, while those of mere politicians only tend — as we know 
by sad experience — to impoverish, to enervate, and to de- 
stroy. In June, 1872, the above facts and traits of charac- 
ter seem to have impressed the public mind to such an 
extent that those representative of public opinion, most of 
the delegates of the Democratic and Refonn Conventions 
from the Third Congressional District of this State, paid 
him the remarkable compliment of inviting him to stand 
as an independent candidate to represent the District, say- 
ing, in their letter of invitation, substantially that his 
charancter for wisdom and intregity was all the declaration 
of principle requii'ed. His frank and manly letter of ac- 
ceptance elicited the most complimentary notice of the 
Press, one of which held the following language — " No 
man is better acquainted with the wants and necessities of 
Louisiana, or more capable of relieving the same and pro- 
moting her welfare. He is much loved by his old servants, 
and is highly esteemed by his numerous employes. He is 
a good citizen, a thorough gentleman, a kind neighbor, 
and a true friend. A golden future awaits him," etc., etc. 

From parental iufluence, liberal education, a large- 
hearted and broad-minded nature, with much travel and 
mixing with men, both in the old and new worlds, he is 
expanded in his feelings, liberal in his views, and thor- 
oughly Cosmopolitan in his tastes. He is free alike from 
liigotry and sectionalism, and religion, education and 
morals find in him a hearty jiromoter. 

Ill phy.sique he is one of the best specimens of the 
AngloSaxon race, while a total abstinence throughout life, 
from beer, wine, spirits, and tobacco, and from any form of 
dissipation or gambling, has secured to him the multiplied 
blessings which llow from a good constitution and perfect 
health. 



L. E. REYNOLDS, ESQ. 



None of our architects is better known, few or none ai-e 
more highly esteemed, than Mr. Reynolds. A passion for 
drawing, a fondness for handling tools, and a readiness in 
the use of them, marked his childhood, and seemed to in- 
dicate the special and important pui'pose to which his sub- 
sequent life was devoted. The training and experience 
through which he passed from the humbler labors of a 
carpenter, till, in maturer life, he adopted the nobler and 
more exacting profession of an architect, contributed to 
the gi-adual, but certain, development of powers essential 
to excellence in the Art of Design. 

L. E. Reynolds was born at Norwich, Chenango County, 
in the State of New York, on the 'iGth of February, 1816. 
At an early age he went to Cincinnati, then rapidly rising 
into importance among the cities of the West, regarding 
it, as he did, a favorable locality for the commencement of 
his labors. The carpenter's trade first engaged his atten- 
tion ; but with the practical part of it, into which he was 
soon inducted, he united the study of architectiire as a 
science — a study which he prosecuted with unceasing dili- 
gence, until figure, form, harmony and propoi-tion became 
familiar ideas with him. 

With a view to finish his education in the line of life he 
had adopted, he placed himself under the direction of dis- 
tinguished architects in Louisville, and su.bsequently in 
New York, with whom he remained several years, diligently 
pursuing a prescribed course of study, and uniting the 
theory with the practice of the Art of Design as he had 
opportunity. He spent from ten to fifteen years in t'lis 
way, building and designing buildings, before he considered 
himself competent to enter on the duties of a i^rofessional 
architect. 

Having now become proficient as a draughtsman, and 
being inspired with a gi'eat love of his profession, as well 
for purposes of emolument as fame, he determined to 
teach its principles to others as a public lecturer. In this 
capacity, as well as that of an architect actively engaged 
in his profession, he visited New York, Philadelphia, Balti- 
more, St. Louis, Washington and New Orleans, and hun- 
dreds of young men in these cities, after the labors of the 
day were over, gathering around him, received their fii'st 
instructions in building, architecture and civil engineering. 
He taught them a new system of prospective, reconstructed 
and improved many problems in carpentry and in cylindri- 
cal and conic sections. He invented five original methods of 
Hand-Railing, including all that have been of any practical 
use since the days of Peter Nicholson, and published a 
treatise on the subject accompanied with plates. The work 
is highly commended by skilled architects on both sides of 
the Atlantic, for the oiiginality of its views and the beauty 
of its geometrical figures. 

Mr. Reynolds paid his first visit to New Orleans in 1^33, 
and came permanently to reside here ten years afterwards, 
viz : in 1843. Since that time he has jiursued his pi-ofes- 
sion with exemplary diligence and signal success. The 
monuments of his skill as an architect are scattered all 
aronml us. Many of the fine buildings that adoi-n the 
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whether individuals or corporate bodies, for refraction of 
her vast estates. Admitting that she has an unquestion- 
able right to all that the courts have decided to be her pro- 
perty, however large the amount may be, if with a view to 
relieve those who are in possession of her rights, she is 
willing to surrender a considerable portion of her legal 
claims. "Who can withhold from her the praise of noble- 
ness and generosity ? 

It adds largely to the merit of Mrs. Gaines, that the 
prospect of untold wealth, which lies before her, has never 
roused within her those feelings of arrogance and pride 
which are often the accompaniments of large expectations. 
In her intercourse with society, her manners are simple, 
frank and genial, devoid of the slightest approach to as- 
sumption. She despises none because they are poor, but 
is ever disposed to aid them as she has opportunity ; she 
respects none because they are rich, regarding wealth a 
blessing or a curse as it is employed to good or evil ends. 
No religious devotee seems more intensely conscious of 
the leadings of Providence, and no Christian entertains a 
profounder reverence for the Creator, whom, in her con- 
versations with friends, she always styles, with evident 
affection and trust, her " Heavenly Father." 

We cannot refrain from concluding our brief sketch of 
this distinguished woman, by quoting the significant opin- 
ion expressed by the Supreme Coui't of the United States 
on the subject of the Gaines' controversy : 

" When, hereafter, some distinguished American lawyer 
shall retire from his practice, to write the history of his 
country's jurisprudence, this case will be registered by him 
as the most remarkable in the records of the coni"ts." 



.TOSEPH ADOLPHUS ROZIER, ESQ. 



Any account of distinguished members of the New Or- 
leans bar, and of prominent citizens, would be signally 
deficient, whi<-h omitted a proper notice of this gentleman. 

Mr. Rozier, as we are informed, is of French extraction, 
and was born at St. Genevieve, Missouri, December 31st, 
1817. After completing his classical com'se at St. Mary's 
College, Mo., he commenced the study of law at Kaskaskia, 
Ills., under the direction of Judge Nathaniel Pope, then 
District Judge of the United States; and, subsequently, 
under that of John Scott, Esq., a distinguished member of 
the St. Genevieve bar. It was doubtless fortunate for the 
future reputation of Mr. Rozier, that the gentlemen who 
presided over his legal education, were men of a high 
order of intelk'<.-t, and well versed in their profession. It 
is always beneficial to young men of ingenuous temper and 
honorable ambition, to have influential examples constantly 
bofoi'o theii' eyes when engaged in the prosecution of their 
studies; and such was the case with the subject of this 
notice. But his success, in after life, was more attributable 
to his own enei-gy and his ardent devotion to the noble pi'o- 
fession he had adopted, than oven to the force of brilliant 
examples. 

When he had completed his preparation for tlie bar, Mr. 



Rozier presented himself to the bench of judges for exam- 
ination, and having successfully passed thi'ough that ordeal 
received his diploma. 

It is an era in the career of the young advocate in our 
wide-spread country, when the question of an advantageous 
location for practice is first raised, and its solution is often 
attended with difficulties. Missouri was then, compara- 
tively speaking, a young State, and its cities, now popu- 
lous, were then small. He commenced the practice at 
home where his information and habits for business were 
duly appi'eciated ; but, animated by the spirit of adven- 
tui-e, or seeing a wider scope for the exercise of his abili- 
ties in New Orleans, he removed to this place, and having, 
as a necessary step, first mastered the doctrines and pro- 
blems of the civil law, (which is itself a science,) and been 
examined as to his pi'oficiency, commenced practice in this 
community in the year 1840. Here he has since resided, 
occupying a position among the prominent members of his 
profession, greatly respected for the virtues which have 
adorned his career in the various relations of life — domestic, 
social, civil and religious. His practice has been lucrative, 
and his income adequate to all the requirements of taste 
and elegance. His habits are literary, his disposition 
social, and his acquaintance with men and events, in past 
times and present, large. He always prepares himself 
thoroughly in his cases, comes to trial fully armed with 
authorities, never loses sight of the interests of his clients, 
nevei- trifles with grave toj^ics, and uniformly sj^eaks with 
fluency, dignity, gi'ace and effect. 

A trait, which eminently distinguishes Mr. Rozier, is de- 
cision of character — an invincible adherence to his princi- 
ples. This was manifested, in a remarkable degree, duiing 
our late troubles. Though a member of the State Conven- 
tion that resolved to resort to secession as a remedy for 
Federal grievances, he voted against the measui-e and re- 
fused to sign the ordinance of secession, being one of the 
only seven of the whole body comprising the Convention 
who pui'suod this course. In this instance, as in all cases, 
he was doubtless influenced by his convictions, being gov- 
ei-ned by a sense of what he regarded right. His Roman 
firmness and conscientioiisness displayed on this occasion, 
have been much admired and even pi'aised by those who, 
to this day, differ from him in political opinion. 

The ability of Mr. Rozier, and his earnest devotion to 
the interests of the Federal Union, attracted the attention 
of President Lincoln who, regarding him the proper per- 
son for the place, appointed him District Attorney of the 
United States for Louisiana. Mr. Rozier possessing a re- 
markable share of that modesty which is always chaiac- 
teristic of minds of a certain elevation, could not be 
tempted either by the distinction or emoluments attending 
the offi(;e to accept it. He accordingly declined the ap- 
pointment. 

Unol)trusive in his manners, affable in his intercourse, 
suns pcvr et sans reproche, Mr. Rozier would be regarded a 
model man in any community. 

Mr. Roziei' is, at present and has been for se^■eral yeais, 
Pr('sid<'nt of the Law Association, composed of the most 
distii]t;'uished members of the i^rofession in this city. 



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The Louisiana T'otton Manut'ai-t tiring Company was 
fonned in 18f)9. The mill is near the Barracks, about 
three miles from Canal street, fronting (216 feet) on the 
Levee, the premises comprising about six acres on which 
the company propose to build houses for one hundred and 
fifty operatives. The capital of the company is $200,000 
and over $100,000 is paid up. The mill runs about sixty 
looms and 3360 spindles. The fine machinery is from the 
works of Curtis, Parr, & Morley, Manchester, England. 
The operatiA'es are all white, being ehieiiy Creoles from 
Third District, who have proved to be excellent in indus- 
try and fidelity, and of more than average aptitude in 
learning difficult processes. At fair remuneration the sup- 
ply exceeds the demand, and the poorc^r white people in 
the lower portion of the city are partial to the new indus- 
try that is here opened to them. 



Although the products of this mill are comparatively 
small, the experiment has proved that cotton can be success- 
fully spun and woven near to the place of production, thus 
avoiduig compression, freights, duties, interest, commission, 
and risks by sea and land. The fabrics of this- mill are in 
demand in this city, and have already gained favorable no- 
tice in Western trade centres. The Company readily .sell 
all they make at paying rates, and for cash. The affairs of 
the Company are controlled and regulated by W. T. Ilepp, 
L. P''olgor, F. Gueydan, M. A. de Lizardi, and J. C. Denis, 
who constitute the Board of Directors. The officers of the 
Comi^any are : J. C. Denis, President ; George Perrilliat, 
Secretary and H. V. Meigs, Superintendent. 

For want of sufficient capital the 0})erations of the Fac- 
tory have been somewhat limited — but a reorganization of 
the Company with ample funds is contemplated. 



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DR. WILLIAM NEWTON MERCER. 



Who now re.sides on Canal sti'eet, in this city, at the ad- 
vanced age of eighty-one, Is one of the most venerated and 
beloved of our citizens. His name has long been regarded 
as the epitome of benevolence, kind-heartedness, of genial 
hospitality, and refined leai'ning and manners. 

With these qualities he combines excellent judgment and 
good knowledge of men — a well-trained intellect, large in- 
formation, and admirable powers of administration. 

To this rare combination. Dr. Mercer owes his great suc- 
cess, and the ac^cumulation of the large fortune which he 
now enjoys, and from which he derives the means of his 
highest enjoyment in life, that of relieving the wants and 
alleviating the distresses of the unfortunate, and promoting 
meritorous enterprises of Religion, Benevolence and Edu- 
cation. 

Dr. Mercer was born in Cecil County, Maryland. He re- 
ceived a good education, and attended the course of lectui-es 
at the University at Pennsylvania, when Di'. Rush was prin- 
cipal profe.'^sor at that institution. Graduating with dis- 
tinction, he received the commission of Assistant-Surgeon 
in the regular army, about the beginning of the war with 
England, in 1812. 

In this position Dr. Mercer served with gieat credit. 
The only action of the war in which he took active 
part was at the disastrous fight, or rather race, at Bladens- 
burg, when the raw militia which had been hastily gather- 
ed for the defence of the National Capitol was so quickly 
put to flight by the Peninsular veterans, under Genei-al 
Ross. The only fighting done on that occasion was by 
Captain Barney, of Baltimore, with a small force of sailors 
and marines, an 1 a few pieces of artillery. This little de- 
tachment held the Biitish army at bay for some time, and 
only yielded their position when overrun by an overwhelm- 
ing foi'ce, and their gallant commander was shot down at 
his post. Dr. Mercer was attached to that command, and 
bravely and faithfully pei-foi'med his duty. 

After the close of the war, Dr. Mercer remained in the 
army, and came, with a portion of it to this city, as a Post- 
Sui-geon. This was in 1816. After remaining here for a 
shoit time, he was transferred to Natchez, Mississippi, 
whei'e he resided for some years. At this time Natchez 
was a very important town — and its society was of a very 
distinguished character. The rapidly-increasing wealth of 
the cotton planters, and the attractive prospects of this 
commanding position in the south-west, had drawn thither 
a number of men from the old States of marked character- 
istics. 

Then was laid the foundation of what was well known 
throughovit the country as the Adams County Aristocracy. 
It was in this society Dr. Mercer obtained admission, 
through his gentlemanly bearing, refined and dignified de- 
poi'tment, and his many admirable and genial habits. He 
soon became a great favorite with all persons, especially 
with the ladies, who were always won by his graceful gal- 
lantry and playful wit. Among the gentlemen, the Doctor 
was regarded as first, on this account with some slight jeal- 
ousy. This, and his freedom from the vices and dissijaa- 



tions, then quite prevalent in that section, led them to regard 
him as more of a beau and ladies' man, than was compatible 
with the manly qualities of the age. But this idea proved 
a delusion, the doctor's courage and power of will, were 
quite as conspicuous, when occasion demanded their exer- 
cise, as were his coui-tly ease and amiability of manners and 
deportment. 

These virile virtues were not displayed in physical com- 
bats, or in deeds of violence, and indistinctivene-ss so com- 
mon in the south-west, but in the higher forms of an im- 
movable firmness in every duty, a tenacity in the mainten- 
ance of his convictions, and rights, and fearless intrepidity 
in the defences and relief of the oppressed and the unfor- 
tunate. 

A striking example of this was related to the writer, bv 
the late Robert Walker, who was for many years a distin- 
guished citizen of Natchez. It happened that a large and 
brilliant company had assembled at one of the fashionalile 
summer resorts in East Mississippi. A number of Natchez 
families were included in this company. One day there was 
an alarm, a cry of distress, a call for a doctor. Dr. Mercer, 
who happened to be in attendance, repaired to the spot, and 
there foimd a crowd, surrounding a negro boy, a slave of 
one of the families sojourning at the resort ; the boy was in 
an agony of fright and pain, and the spectators were all in 
wild panic what to do. The poor boy had been badly bit- 
ten by that most poisonous of snakes, the copperhead moc- 
casin. Gently waving aside the helpless crowd, Dr. Mercer 
quickly examined the wound, drew from his pockets his 
surgical instruments, scarified it, and then applying his lips 
to it, sucked out the poison. The boy recovered, never ex- 
periencing any effect from the poison. 

For a gentleman of such fastidious refinement and ele- 
gance as to incur the suspicion of effeminacy from his ruder 
and more boisterous contemporaries, this action of Dr. Mer- 
cer was justly regarded by the fair sex as one of the high- 
est manifestations of real courage, such as is prompted by 
the triumph of true benevolence and philantrophy over the 
love of self — of an utter insensibility to danger in discharo-e 
of duty to supplying humanity. 

These, and like incidents in Dr. Mercer's career, at Nat- 
chez, quickly dissipated the erroneous impressions in re- 
gard to his true character. It was discovered that whilst 
the most benevolent and most amiable of men, he was also, 
one of the finest, most positive and consistent. 

An amusing illustration was given of this, when, diu-ino- 
one of those spasmodic efforts, which used to characterize 
the legislation of the Southern States, a severe militia law 
was passed in Mis.sissippi. 

This law required frequent parades, provided for a 
thorough organization of the citizens into battallions and 
companies, who should elect their own officers, and that 
said officers should call out their companies, whenever they 
deemed it necessary, and should subject them to a thorough 
drill. 

Under this law one of the i/omiianies, composed of the 
wealthy and aristocratic citizens of Natchez, thought it a 
happy practical joke to elect, as their captain, the courtly 
and elegant ex-surgeon of the army ; Dr. Mercer had re- 



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signed his commission in the anny sometime before. Great 
was their surprise when they were assured by the doctor of 
his high appreciation of the honor conferred on him. And 
they were still more surprised when the doctor, buckling 
on his sword, and donning his epaulets, entered upon the 
duties of his command, and with such vigor and earnest- 
ness, that they quickly discovered that the joke had been 
turned on the engineers. There never was so unhappy a 
militia as that of Dr. Mercer's became, under his command. 
The frequency and severity of the drilling to which he sub- 
jected them, the pertinacity with which he marched them 
in the hot sun, and through the streets of Natchez, the vigor 
with which the fines were imposed and collected, and the 
general severity of his discipline produced so profound a 
disgust with themselves and the law, which their com- 
mander had so faithfully carried out, that petitions were 
got up and dispatched to Jackson for the immediate repeal 
of the law. 

Dr. Mercer pui-sued his practice for some years in Nat- 
chez with great success. Marrying into one of the oldest 
families of the State, he found himself charged with the re- 
sponsibility of administering a large cotton plantation. 
It was in the execution of this tnvst that the admirable ad- 
ministrative abilities of Dr. Mercer were displayed. His 
good sense, clear and practical views of financial manage- 
ment, and promptitude and fli-mness in all his transactions, 
rendered him one of the most successful planters in the 
South. 

By a firm adherence to certain simple rules of manage- 
ment, and apparently without an effort, the estate of his 
wife was rapidly increased in value and productiveness. 
And, when her lamented decease occurred, a large fortune 
had been accumulated, mainly through the judicious man- 
agement of Dr. Mercer. 

The death of his wife clouded the remainder of Dr. Mer- 
cer's life and some years afterwards the loss of his only 

daughter, just entering womanhood, and adorned with all 
ajniable and attractive qualities of her sex, completed the 
cvcle of his domestic calamities, and condemned him to long 
years of sorrowing and melancholy. 

Even now, in his extreme age, the afflictions give a pain- 
fully perceptible tinge of melancholy and of conscious be- 
reavement to the expression of his noble countenance, show- 
ing that his thoughts and memory have never been relieved 
of'^the heavy burden of gi-ief, which fell upon him so many 
yeai-s ago. 

Shortly after the death of his wife. Dr. Mercer removed 
to this city, and has resided here continually for nearly 
thirty years. Erecting an elegant residence on Canal 
street, and investing largely in this city, he has led the life 
of a retired gentleman, dispensing a most elegant hospital- 
ity, and enjoying himself in acts of charity of the most libe- 
ral and generous chaiacter. 

The characteristic of Dr. Mei-cer's contributions to the 
relief and aid of humanity, has been the modesty with 
which they have been dispensed. A shrinking from all no- 
toriety or ostentation, a desire " to do good by stealth," has 
been his chief ambition in life. His charity has been di- 
rected by the suggestion and emanations of his own mind and 



heart, rather than from concession to the demands or soli- 
citations of others. It would not be appropriate here dur- 
ing the life of this modest old gentleman to refer to the 
various incidents of his life ilustrative of this quality of his 
benevolence. But there is one of these which has already 
gained a place in history to which we may be excused, for 
referring. It relates to that affecting incident in the life of 
Henry Clay, when that great man, having served his coun- 
try for more than a quarter of a century, returned to his 
home to find that his financial afiairs, having been so long 
neglected, had fallen into a condition verging on bank- 
ruptcy. A note for a large sum held by the bank in Lex- 
ington was rapidly approaching maturity. It was impos- 
sible to meet this and his other liabilities. 

If it were not renewed, but pressed for payment, it 
would involve the sale of his homestead. This was a very 
distressing circumstance for the great statesman. It may 
be imagined with what chagrin and distress the proud man 
jjroceeded to the bank on the day when the debt became 
due, to solicit its extension, to do that which, to Henry 
Clay, was one of the hardest of all sacrifices and struggles, 
to solicit a favor from men whom he looked down upon as 
his inferiors in all the claims and attributes of greatness and 
illustrious public service. 

Imagine the surprise, the relief and the joy of the old 
gentleman, when, on applying at the bank for the renewal 
of his note, he was informed that it had been paid, and the 
cancelled instalment was handed to him. 

It is said that the proud old man bui'st into tears at this 
announcement, and exclaiming, " Well, I must have some 
true friends after all," retired to his home, and his own re- 
flections. No inquiry, however, could elicit the informa- 
tion as to the generous friend who had rendered him this 
great and timely aid, and thus smoothed and brightened 
the declining years of the great Kentuckian. We imagine, 
however, that his sagacity and knowledge of the character 
and of the affection so long manifested for him by his old 
friend with whom he had passed so many agreeable days in 
New Orleans, did not permit Mr. Clay to doubt who was 
that friend in need. 

It was the timely intervention of Dr. Mercer, and his 
friend, Mr. Duncan, of Natchez, who had saved the great 
Kentuckian from the mortification and anxiety that threat- 
ened to darken his latter days, in his retirement from the 
active scenes of public life in which he had nlayed so dis- 
tinguished a part. 

• As we have said, we do not intend to repeat the many 
other instances of generous liberality and beneficence of 
this venerable gentleman. It would require a volume to 
narrate them all. 

It was, however, especially dui'ing oui* civil war, that the 
sterling qualities, and coui-ageous devotion to friends, to 
principle and duty, of Dr. Mercer were most conspicuously 
displayed. The doctor had earnestly opposed the seces- 
sion movement. He was a warm, sincere and out-spoken 
Unionist. Unable to resist the impulse of the people to 
secession and civil war — but alway predicting its ultimate 
failure — he determined when war came apon us to share its 
calamities and burdens with his fellow citizens. 



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As president of the most solid banks of the city, he favor- 
ed the aid and support of the authorities, who were en- 
gaged in the defence of the State from invasion. To that 
object, he contributed largely from his private means. On 
the approach of the Federal army and fleet to the city, he 
recommended to the directory of the banks of which he was 
president, to pay its large specie deposit of over two mil- 
lions of dollars to the depositors. This proposition was ob- 
jected to by the State authorities, as hostile to the credit of 
the Confederacy. 

It was determined by them that the specie of the banks 
should be removed into the Confederacy to jilace it beyond 
the reach of the invader. This measure or mandate was 
most reluctantly yielded to by the president and directors 
of the bank of Louisiana, and the whole two millions of gold 
which had long lain in the vaults, were now transferred into 
the interior, where, after many abortive attempts to pro- 
cure its release, and to guard it from seizure and expropri- 
ation, the whole amount finally disappeared in that charm, 
which had swollowed up so many more millions of the 
wealth of the South. 

When Butler occupied the city, and commenced his ca- 
reer of bullying and i)ersecution of the people, he threaten- 
ed vengeance against the bank president for snatching from 
him this valuable spoil. They were all ordered before him, 
to answer for theii- conduct. 

When they appeared — they were all citizens of the high- 
est repute and wealth — Butler favored them with some of 
his choicest democratic oratory, and with unbounded de- 
nunciation, as a set of bank robbers, who had betrayed their 
faith to theii' depositors and note-holders, and had thus 
perpetrated a doiible treason to their country and to the 
people who had entrusted them with their hard earnings. 
After a long harrangue, full of abuse and bitterness, he ask- 
ed them what excuse they could give for their conduct. 
Several of the presidents offered various pleas ; they had 
been coerced in the matter ; they had always opposed this 
ti-ansfer, and they had already set on foot measui'es to have 
theii' specie returned. It was very perceptible that the 
woi'thy gentlemen were not a little alarmed by the threat- 
ening tone and manner of Butler. Dr. Mercer alone, re- 
mained unmoved, and maintained a dignified silence under 
the fierce oratorical blast of the unblushing demagogue. 
At last Butler turned to him and asked : " What have you, 
Dr. Mercer, a Union man, to say in justification of your 
conduct in this matter ?" 

" Nothing," replied the bland and brave old gentleman ; 
" but to bear my share of the responsibility and penalty for 
the act." 

Not a word was said of his own earnest opposition to the 
measure ; no promise or pledge of I'eparation, no expres- 
sion of regret or I'epentance, though of all present he might 
justly and honestly have avaOed himself of siich pleas. It 
was not the time now, it would have been incompatible with 
true manhood, thus to sepai'ate himself from his associates 
in peril and misfortune. And so the doctor, not only main- 
tained his self-respect, but managed to secure the confidence 
and admiration of Butler, who made vigorous efTorts to win 



the confidence and regard of the brave but always courteous 
and dignified old gentleman. 

It was due to this feeling of Butler toward Dr. Mercer, 
that the latter was enabled frequently to intervene in favor 
of his fellow citizens, who were subjected to the violent 
treatment of that officer, during the whole period of But- 
ler's command in this city. Dr. Mercer was almost inces- 
santly engaged in these acts of interposition and remon.s- 
trance against the hard orders and acts of the Federal Gen- 
eral. 

Finally, however, Butler became dissatisfied with the 
doctor. Of all our rich men, he alone refused to take the 
oath, which Butler required of all citizens, on the penalty 
of confiscation of all their property If this oath were not 
taken by a certain day, the non-jurors were commanded to 
hand over the schedules of their property. 

When that day arrived. Dr. Mercer walked to the ofiice 
of the Prevost Marshall, and duly delivered to him a com- 
plete list of all his large estate, retaining, as he stated, two 
thousand dollars in gold, for his necessities, which, however, 
he agreed to report to General Butler. 

This adroit demagogue could not resist the opportunity 
for a display of his zeal for the Union, and his love of equal 
rights, and accordingly, he had published his letter refusing 
the doctor pennission to retain this small sum referred to, 
stating that he, of all others, from lii.s high position and 
great influence, over his fellow citizens, should set the ex- 
ample of a prompt renewal of his allegiance to this govern- 
ment. 

It does not appear, however, that Butler intended any- 
thing more than to make a display before the people, for 
he never disturbed the doctor in the possession and enjoy- 
ment of this small remnant ot his princely estate. 

An incident, growing out of this event, may be here re- 
lated as illustrative of the quiet humor and sharp repartee 
of Dr. Mercer. Shortly after the publication of the corres- 
pondence between Dr. Mercer and General Butler, the Dr. 
was taking his customary promenade on Canal street, when 
a hearty and robust young man, a native of the city, whose 
friends had been not a little mortified, that he should be ab- 
sent from the scenes in which nearly all the able-bodied 
young men of the city were then playing their parts, salut- 
ing the doctor, inquired, jocosely, whether he had any of 
those two thousand gold dollars left. 

" Oh ! yes," quickly responded the doctor, " I have a 
small sum left, which I keep for a special purpose." 

" May I inquire what that purpose is ?" 

" It is," whispered the doctor, lookuig aroimd as if he in- 
tended to guard against Federal detectives, " to buy yov a 
fine Confederate uniform." 

Immovable lii his puipose, the doctor remained in the 
city throughout the whole war, without taking the oath, or, 
as it was styled, renewing his allegiance. 

But our sketch has extended beyond the limits we had 
prescribed, we must bring it to a close. 

After the war, with a single interruption of a short visit 
to the North, Dr. Mercer has remained in New Orleans, a 
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ino- GTcnts and characters ; a great reader, Bot only of the 
cm-rent literature of the day, but of the works of the great 
English and French authors, and the dispenser of the most 
cordial and sumptuous hospitality. 

By every class of the people he is looked up to with the 
most profound veneration, love and respect, as the model of 
the Southern gentleman, patriot, philanthropist and Chris- 
tian, as, indeed, the single survivor of a generation, whose 
standard of virtue, of dignity, of refinement and honor, was 
far hio-her than that which has succeeded it. 

JN'EW ORLEANS CHAMBER OF COMMERCE. 

This institution was founded and incorporated February 
26th 1830. The charter was renewed for an additional 
term of twenty years, on the 25th of April, 1853. Its 
earlier labors were very useful, and the decisions of its 
committees of arbitration were published, and were of 
analagous authority in the business transactions of the 
merchants. Suspended by what the resolutions of reor- 
o-anization calls " fortuitous circumstances," the members 
on the 17th of February, 1864, and renewed their organ- 
ization, by. the election of Charles Briggs, Esq., as Presi- 
dent, and of A. C. Waugh, Esq., Secretary and Treasurer. 
From that time it has continued in active usefulness. Its 
membership has steadily increased, although not so great 
as the population and interests of the city would justify. 
In the midst of the political contest which has raged for 
the past six or seven years, the Chamber of Commerce has 
devoted itself by pressing good measures of legislation, 
and preventing others tending, in its opinion, to injuries, 
or retard the commercial interests of the city. 

Amono- the most prominent of the measures advocated 
by the Chamber, may be mentioned the limitation of State 
debt by constitutional amendment. Advocacy of a rail- 
road system, with an investigation into their progress, or 
cause of their delayed completion. Application for Fed- 
eral aid m improving the Mississippi from its mouths to 
its outlet canal, levee reparation, and postal appropriations 
for establishing postal connections with foreign countries. 
Also for such amendment of oui- commercial treaties as 
will give gi-eater intereoui-se with the States on the conti- 
nent'and Island, south of the United States. An amend- 
ment and explanation of the law of lien on property, and 
endorsement of a system of Industrial education in the 
South and for the South. Such -are some of the measures 
which have been commended, and enforced upon public 
adoption by the many active and able merchants of New 
Orleans. To envimerate them would occupy too much 
space, and to designate any of them us especially effective 
would be invidious. It is proper to be said that for the 
patriotism, integi'ity and wisdom of its action, as well as in 
the confidence of their fellow citizens, the Chamber of New 
Orleans has a most respectable record. The present mem- 
bership number m(5T-e than two hundred, and its officers 
ar-e .Joseph H. Oglesby, President ; .1. M. Sandidge, Vice 
President ; C. E. Slayback, Second Vice President ; W. M. 
Burwell, Secretary and Treasurer. The Chamber holds 
its sessions on the 1st Monday of each month, in the hall 
over the Louisiana National Bank. 



TWELFTH NIGHT REVELERS. 



FIRST FESTIVAL, 1871. 



Iiif the latter part of the year 1870, it was resolved by 
certain genial enterprising spirits in this city, to re-estab- 
lish the ancient and honorable Festival of the 12th Night, 
so memorable in history. 

It was foiind that these annual celebrations not only con- 
tributed to the public enjoyment, but, by giving the city a 
reputation for gorgeous public festivities, had the effect of 
drawing here that vast pleasure-seeking element, which is 
yearly becoming larger, and whose presence always acts 
as an impulse to every description of local business. 

Accordingly, on the evening of the 6th of January, 1871, 
the initial pageant of the 12th Night Revelers made its ap- 
pearance upon the streets. 

Public ciu'iosity had been greatly excited, and all the 
thoroughfares which were known to be included in the line 
of march, presented the spectacle of one dense mass of 
spectators. 

The entire central district of the city, indeed, was one 
brilliant scene of life and gaiety. The whole population 
was in the streets, and, with the bright and balmy night, 
the gay throngs and the flashing lights, the tout ensemble 
was one which belongs only to New Orleans among Amer- 
ican cities. When it was found that the pageant was to 
represent the familiar characters whom Mother Goose has 
made immortal, the delight of the spectators can be better 
imagined than described, and, as the costly, fantastic pro- 
cession filed slowly by, each new tableau was greeted with 
shouts of enthusiastic recognition from the innumerable 
throng. 

The pageant was headed by a grotesque and gorgeous 
figure with the title of the Lord of Misrule, who was fol- 
lowed in regular order by the characters who have been 
handed down to us in the old nursery rhymes of that mys- 
terious poet Mother Goose. 

We can not, perhajis, give a clearer idea of the nature 
of the procession and the elements which entered into its 
composition than by quoting the following clever verses 
which were written by a prominent member of the New 
Orleans press, one of the most versatile, piquant and 
brilliant of oui- writers, and on which the formation of the 
affair was based. 

We will only premise that the representations were all 
gotten up in the most expensive and artistic style, and 
were aided by every accessory of color and illumination 
which it is possible to employ in such cases. 

The poem itself is complete and jierfect in construction, 
and although on the most familiar of subjects, is full of 
harmony, and will be read with pleasure by every one 
whose memories carry them back to the loving care of a 
mother and the innocent joys of childhood. 

MOTHER GOOSE'S TEA PARTY. 
1 
Hink 1 minx ! hink ! my eyelids wink ; 
Marry I'll have a fe.ost ; 
Since all were out at my last rout 
Is many a year at last. 



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The prating- fools of modern schools 
Would have me sound asleep : 
Tis time to call my ohildren all 
And give the world a peep. 

So take the broom, sweep up the room 
And then the table spread ; 
We'U have one night as gay and bright 
As any that have fled. 

II 

Wake Little Bo-peep, now fast asleep, 
And rouse up Heart's good Queen ; 
Bid Robin Hood from out the wood, 
With his men in Lincoln green. 

Bold Valentine, and Jack so fine. 
Who cracked the Giant's pates. 
To come with Spratt, who eat no fat, 
And his wife who licked the plates. 

Tell Jack and Gill, upon the hill, 
And Humpty on the wall. 
With Old King Cole, that good old soul, 
They must obey the call. 

Ill 

We'll have a feast, where Beauty's Beast 
Shall sup with Silver Hair, 
Bed Riding Hood and Orson good, 
And Cinderella fair. 

The childien, too, who in the shoe. 
Were all so poorly fed, 
With Jenny Wren, and the little men, 
Whose bullets were made of lead. 

The summons sound till it shakes the ground, 
So Fee-Faw-Fum may hear. 
And Ogres come with Piper Tom, 
To share our merry cheer. 

IV 

Quick, Saddle My Cock, hunt up the flock, 
With a hop, step, jump away ; 
Gather them all, both great and small, 
Before the dawn of day. 

There's Parson Rook, with solemn look. 
Must bring young Johnny Grace, 
Jack Horner too, with Buckle-my-Shoe, 
Shall also have a place. 

Nor maid forlorn, nor Crumple Horn, 
Must either be passed by ; 
Both girls and boys shall make a noise, 
And sup on Blackbird Pie. 



The fiddUng Cat shall feed the Rat, 
That quarrelled with the Frog ; 
The Market Pig shall dunce a Jig, 
With Mother Hubbard's dog. 

And Puss in Boots, in best of suits, 
Shall pay Miss Mufiet court ; 
While Beanstone Jack rolls on his back, 
With laughing at the sport. 

Old Wondrous-Wise, with blinded eyes. 
Shall mash Kriss-Kringle's corn ; 
And Little Boy Blue, a hullabaloo. 
Shall waken with his horn. 



VI 



Come out, come out, with song and shout. 
Obey the grandame's call ; 
To her bright eyes and golden skies, 
We owe allegiance all. 

The gems she wears distill no tears. 
Her flowiets bloom for aye ; 
Her castle walls and fahy halls. 
Shall never pass away. 

Like us who, back o'er life's dull track, 
Our glance at Lapland throw ; 
To hours ol youth, to love and truth. 
We never more may know. 



SECOND ANNUAL FESTIVAL, 1872. 



The second Festival of these unknown Revelers was a 
splendid effort. With a more perfected organization, and 
with increased expenditure, they came to the front, deter- 
mined to out-do their former effort and realize the brilliant 
expectations which their many admirers had founded upon 
the inaugui'al ceremony of their order. 

They could scarcely have chosen a better theme than 

THE TIDE OF ENGLISH HUMOR. 

In all the realm of literatui-e there is no richer field than 
this; and our Revelers certainly culled its very fairest 
flowers as they wandered. Headed by Don Quixote (a jjar- 
donable theft from other lands) the pageant showed Humor, 
Its Gods, Its Fathers, Its Fountain, and Its Tide, in a splen- 
did and harmonious sequence. 

Shakespeare, Rare Ben Johnson, Gray, Swift, Sterne, 
Goldsmith, Burns, Scott, Irving, Dickens and Bret Ilarte ! 

These were figiu'es which followed in the Tide of Hu- 
mor ; eacli one set in a group of his own choicest creations, 
and clustered with them on their respective pedestals rival- 
ing in cliiseled spender the majestic sculptiu'es of Praxiteles 
himself. 

In all the appointments of ai'tistic elegance this display 
was considered as being yet unequalled. It was a daring- 
flight into the realm of art, this attempt at marbleizing Hu- 
mor, but the Revelers assuredly achieved a brilliant suc- 
cess. 

The closing ceremonies, were, as on their first occasion, 
similar to tliose observed by the Mistick Ki-ewe. There 
were two magnificent tableaux, representing 

FIRST. 

HUMOR'S PANTHEON. 

"Above the smoke and stir of this dim spot 
which men call earth." 

SECOND. 

THE APOTHEOSIS OF HUMOR. 

" Tlie mob of gentlemen who wrote with e;ise." 
After the falling of the curtain on the closing tableau the 
usual ball commenced in which the fashionable company 
joined, finding no less delight therein by reason of their 
ignorance of their Hosts. 



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THIRD ANNUAL FESTIVAL, 1873. 



THE BULK GRAIN TRADE. 



This year the Revelers carried their representations into 
a still more elevated field of literature speaking with refer- 
ence to utility and intrinsic dignity. In doing so they paid 
a merited tribute to the greatest genius ever produced by 
Louisiana — 

JOHN JAMES AUDUBON. 

" That cheerful one who knoweth all, 
" The songs of all the winged choristers, 

And in one sequence of melodious sound, 

Pours out their music." 

It was a specially happy conceit of theirs that, while they 
reproduced the birds of Audubon with the most astonish- 
ing fidelity, and while each individual figure was perfectly 
true in plumage, proportions and coloring, to the original 
which it was intended to represent, yet these were group- 
ed in tableaux which were in most instances deliciously 
humorous in their meaning. 

It was a curious and an artistic accomplishment, and, in 
that sense the I'ith Night Revelers exceeded any similar 
effoi-t of theirs. 

This magnificent pageant was composed of seventeen im- 
mense cars or floats, fifteen of which bore groups of from 
five to ten figures. They were brilliantly illuminated with 
lanterns, transparencies and calcium lights, which, together 
with the gaudy coloring of the birds themselves, and the 
continuous blaze from the houses along their route, com- 
bined to make, not only one of the largest, but one of the 
most magnificent and imposing displays ever known in the 
history of our Carnivals. 

There was also a novel idea shown in the management of 
the tableau. Instead of having a multiijlicity of represent- 
ations, the figures of the entii-e pageant were grouped in 
one colossal picture. 

In the centre, on a raised pedestal was the immense sta- 
truary, composed of 

AUDUBON AND HIS TWO COMPANIONS. 

and round about him were the numerous birds which had 
followed him in the procession. 

There were water, and marsh, and rocks, and sand, and 
trees and undergrowth, in which the birds were disposed 
appropriately ; thus making one grand tableau in which 
more than a hundred different contrasting figures were col- 
lected. The coup d'oeil was inexpressibly striking, and 
when the curtain fell it was some time before the immense 
throng of spectators ceased their plaudits. 

Thus, in a resume of the past pageants whicTi have made 
our city so famous over the whole continent, we cannot as- 
sert that anything in the past has exceeded this latest 
effort of the Revelers, all things considered. 

It was in every sense a magnificent spectacle and it has 
proved that the Mistick Ki-ewe have at last foemen worthy 
of their steel. 

This chapter in the history of Revel'ry brings us up to 
the present day, when, if we may believe the mysterious 
hints which have been rife for weeks past, both Rex of the 
Carnival, and the Mistick Brotherhood of Comus intend to 
surpass all former displays. 



This is comparatively a new commerce in the United 
States. It originated in Buffalo, upon the idea of applying 
the band and buckets employed by Oliver Evans in carrying 
grain and flour in a common floui-ing mill, and « as adopted 
on a much larger scale as a means of handling cargoes. 

Formerly, corn was received at New Orleans in the ear, 
shelled and sacked for sale. Wheat was exported in con- 
siderable quantities before the war, and, on some occasions, 
grain in quantity was shipped to Eui'ope by sail, and some- 
times received in such condition that it had to be dug' out 
of the hole with the spade. The plantation demand for corn 
at New Orleans, which, even now, reaches 4 to 5,000,000 
bushels per annum, was sufficient to consume the surplus 
by the then West, which, until within the i^ast twenty 
years, converted its surplus corn into cattle, hogs, horses 
and whisky. The vast growth of the West from foreign 
emigration, and the opening of canal and lake outlets to the 
East, has given a consequence to the grain trade which was 
not originally contemplated. 

In the year 1868, L. J. Higby, Esq., having been for some 
years engaged in the Lake grain trade at Milwaukie, came 
to the conclusion that the Mississippi was the n.atural route 
for western grain to the ocean. Perhaps one of his strong- 
est reasons for the opinion was that the ice blockade usually 
closed up from 20 to 30,000,000 bushels of gi-ain, and sub- 
jected the grower and dealer to shrinkage, interest and in- 
surance, or to the exaction of the Eastern Railroads. 

He accordingly prospected this channel, and was the first 
person that put money into it as a practical proposition. 
In this enterpi-ise it was necessary to provide for two trans- 
fers. 

St. Louis had built a Grain Elevator, but like the canoe 
of Robinson Crusoe, it was as far from the water, that might 
have rotted down before it could be put to any use. This 
Elevator was, in the year 1869, and at the instance of Mr. 
Higby, brought into close connection by rail with the cars 
and shipping. 

It was, however, in 1868 that pioneer of the bulk grain 
trade removed to New Orleans, purchased the groimd, and 
erected the present Elevator, an illustration of which ap- 
pears on another page of this work. He thus describes the 
installation and prosecution of the work in a letter to the 
Missouri " Democrat." 

" After twelve days consultation in mj' own mind, I con- 
cluded to help New Orleans to a Grain Elevator — and make 
her the first grain mart in America. Consequently I brought 
my youngest son here, bought a block of land, btiilt a wharf 
275 feet long and 200 feet into the water, botight a steam- 
boat, hauled her alongside, and made a boarding-house for 
ourselves and men, took off otu- coats on the first of June, 
and built an Elevator which is now, (25th December, 1868) 
able to hold and handle 120,000 bushels of grain in 24 hoiu-s. 
The building is 250 feet long, 100 feet wide, and 13!l feet 
high, and will hold, when completed, 750,000 bushels of 
grain. The tower and Marme Elevator at the edge of the 
wharf is 102 feet high. The Marine Elevator is connected 
with the main elevator by a conveyor 33 feet high, and run- 



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ning over the wharf and street. It is the only conveyor of 
the khid in America. The wharf Elevator can take grain 
out of a vessel at the highest or lowest water — there being 
a variation of 13 feet in the extreme stages. The wharf 
storage building is 200 by 275 feet, capable of storing 65,000 
barrels of floiu' which can be loaded by machinery at the rate 
of 1,000 barrels per horn-. The whole machinery is run by 
an engine of 500 horse jjower." 

The enterprise of moving bulk grain by way of New Oi'- 
leans was ridiculed by those who had not examined the sub- 
ject, and especially by the Chicago Press. The "Times" 
said it would be as natural for Chicago to undertake the 
commerce of cotton, rice and sugar, as for New Orleans to 
control the grain of those high latitudes. 

The St. Louis " Democrat," one of the earliest and 
staunchest advocates of the river gi'ain trade, came to the 
rescue of New Orleans, and vindicated " De Bow's Review," 
from the imiratation of having advocated an absurd propo- 
sition in maintaining the feasibility of the enterprise. 

There was another imaginary impediment. All the East- 
ern interests maintained that grain could not be moved 
through the latitude of Louisiana without injru-y. Essays 
wei'e written on the effects of humidity, and the tempera- 
tui'e of the gulf stream was deemed fatal to a grain cai-go. 

This imi^utation was refuted by undoubted experiment. 
Grain was I'eceived by barges, transferred in elevator, sent 
by steam to England in the summer months, and was sold 
at a higher rate than other grain of its class, then in mar- 
ket. Some years later it having been assumed by some 
writer that grain must be dried at New Orleans before it 
could be exported safely, the indefatigable Mr. Higby pub- 
lished an account of sales of grain, sold abroad at a satis- 
factory profit ; and produced proof that grain had been 
kept in his elevator 107 days in the summer time — and was 
sent sound into the English market. Since that it is ad- 
mitted that the Mississippi and gulf is a sound route for 
sound grain ; and western crops are fearlessly forwarded by 
this route. 

There is in the opinion of the writer but one obstacle in 
the wa}' of perfect success. The cotton crop comes to mar- 
ket at the same time with the western grain ; the first com- 
modity being worth ten times as much as the last, can af- 
ford to pay higher rates — the shipment of grain then arriv- 
ing at New Orleans may find Orleans freights too high for 
profit — uncertainty embarrasses the foreign purchaser. By 
the time the cotton crop is off hand, the lakes and canals 
are open, and grain resumes its direct route to the East. 
If a line of grain propellers were established in close con- 
nection with the river craft to prorate with them and sign 
through bills between Liverpool and St. Louis, the ship- 
ment would be direct and continuous ; the pui'chaser could 
tell what his gi'ain would cost laid down at Liverpool, and 
we should have a steady business at least from October to 
May. 

THE BARGE LINES. 

In treating of the gi'ain trade it would be improper to 
omit the influence resxilting from the establishment of the 
river tow-boats and barges. This enterprise was started in 
1SG(J, and was the fii'st to inaugurate the bulk grain trade. 



When we consider that the grain crop of the United States 
is estimated at 2,500,000 bushels, and that it is grown chief- 
ly on land west of the Mississippi, that a great part of this 
vast and increasing trade is frozen up for six months in the 
year, that the Mississippi is a sound and adequate route for 
the exportation of this crop at all seasons— the complete 
and independent organization of this trade is inevitable. 
We can not leave the subject without announcing that Chi- 
cago herself has modified her incredulity as far as to accept 
the agency of New Orleans in exporting her grain surplus, 
and as a relief against the exactions of Eastern Rail. The 
Illinois Central Railroad now delivers grain to barges at 
Cairo, and prorates for delivery at New Orleans. Efi^orts 
have been made to induce this company to emulate the ex- 
ample of the Baltimore and Philadelphia Railroad— and 
build barges, and even ocean steamers, to conduct the corn 
commerce with Europe. 

NEW ORLEANS AND SPANISH AMERICA. 



The slightest reflection will show that it is the especial 
office and duty of the port of New Orleans to conduct the 
exchange trade between the valley of the Mississippi and 
the Rocky Mountain states, and the cis and citra-tropieal 
countries lying south of the United States. The physical 
reasons are obvious on the map. The commercial causes 
are just as decisive. Trade and travel now move in right 
lines both over land and ocean. New Orleans is a deep 
water port on the direct line between the populations nf 
which it is the outlet and of those who desire intercourse 
with them, in the sale of tropical and other products, and 
the pui'chase of food and manufactures. Trade lines drawn 
between those reciprocal and compensating consumers con- 
centrate for collection and distribution at New Orleans. 
It is at once a depot and entrepot of all these exchangeable 
commodities. It is the natural point at which many of 
these Spanish American States will receive their Em'opc'an 
goods, immigrants and mails. The difi"erential tariff alone 
prevents this, but this removed, the stock and selection of 
goods by the jobbers of New Orleans, supplied by the mer- 
chants and manufacturers of the Union, will present such 
an assortment as will command the custom of smaller cities 
in the South, and of the whole retail trade on the coast and 
in the interior. These obstacles will be removed by the 
rapid gi'owth of the United States, and the mutual jvouiu- 
tion of interest on the part of itself and of its neighbors. 
The trade lines between St. Louis, Chicago and Cuicinnati, 
and Rio Janeiro and Valparaiso, taken as extreme southern 
points, pass through and are concentrated at New Orleans. 
The whole of the western coast of South America connects 
at Panama with a line of steamers from New Orleans. Cen- 
tral America, Mexico and Cuba will likewise conduct their 
trade with the cities named through New Oi'leans. 

There is an especial reason why the postal and passen- 
ger routes between these great interests should be con- 
ducted from New Orleans as a postal centre. The mail 
service between the United States and Brazil, Central 
America and Mexico, is conducted by steamer by New 
York. These routes are respectively about 3500, 2700 and 



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2000 miles. They are all subjected to insm-ances along the 
whole coast of the Atlantic States. When it is remember- 
ed that from each of the principal cities of the Union to 
New Orleans the government has a double daily postal ser- 
vice already paid for, it will be seen that a steam postal 
service to the ports named could be organized with great 
economy of time, distance and rate of insui'ance. The 
cities of the interior could conduct their intercoui'se with 
the foreign countries named directly with New Orleans, thus 
sa\ing the cost of an extra joui'ney to and from New York 
as a jjoint of departure. The travel and trade between the 
comitries named and the United States would be conducted 
inland, over our own railroads and rivers, instead of coast- 
wise and outside, over an ocean route affording no such in- 
cidental advantages. It is useless to encumber these pages 
with an estimate of the value of trade or the niunber of 
passengers to be calculated on by a perfect organization of 
these enterjjrises. Such statistics change constantly, but 
the natural advantages are permanent, and sooner or later 
they will be realized, either by public appropriation or 
private enterprise. The trade of New Orleans in sugar 
and coffee is very heavy and is increasing annually. We 
require, however, our freights to Brazil upon which to 
base a regular system of coffee imports. Coffee is brought 
from Rio principally by vessels which take cotton, corn, or 
tobacco to New York or Liverpool. The coffee import 
should be based uj^on a direct exchange of commodities 
between New Orleans and Brazil. 



MESSRS. A. B. GRISWOLD & CO. 



Tins firm, of whose establishment we give a fine interior 
view, is the oldest and largest house in theu> line of busi- 
ness in the South. And, in fact, there are probably not 
more than one or two firms in New Orleans that can carry 
the record of a continuous business under different styles 
so far back as these gentlemen. 

In the year 181.5, in the then central portion of the city, 
at the corner of St. Louis and Chartres Streets, the busi- 
ness was established by Mr. Hyde, who was shortly after 
joined by Mr. Goodrich, composing the firm of Hyde and 
Goodrich. This name, by many years of honest industry, 
enterprise, and fair dealing, was made familiar as a house- 
hold word throughout the whole South. When the weight 
of years compelled the founders of this house to cease from 
their labors, their sons assumed control and continued its 
affairs with the same system of honesty and liberal dealing, 
and with a still greater share of pecuniary success, commen- 
surate with the gi'owth in wealth and pro.sperity of the city. 
They weathered successfully all the financial storms of the 
last half century, preserving intact, through every disaster, 
the mercantile credit and honor of the house. As the tide 
of trade in New Orleans set more and more towards the 
American portion of the city, the firm removed their place 
of biLsiness to No. 15 Chartres Street, which was henceforth 
connected with their name, and extensively known through 
the Southwest for more than twenty years. It was while 
in Chartres Street, in the year 1S47, that the head of thi; 
present house, Mr. A. B. Uriswold, became connected with 



the firm ; first as a clerk, then as a partner, and has, dur- 
ing this long period of over a quarter of a century, been 
identified with it under its different suyles of Hyde and 
Goodrich ; Thomas, Griswold and Co., and A. B. Gi'iswold 
and Co. In 1853, for the third time in their history, the 
firm made a change of location, and removed to their pres- 
ent admirable position at the corner of Canal and Royal 
Streets, into one of a number of stores just built by Judah 
Toiu'o, and the completed row of which now foi'ms one of 
the handsomest ornaments of Canal Street. 

Here, for twenty years more, they have successfully 
prosecuted their business and preserved the ancient repu- 
tation of the house, as well as maintained its commercial 
credit on a solid and substantial basis. Having their own 
office and resident agent in New York, and with foreign 
connections in England, France and Gennany, they have 
facilities for the conduct of theii' business not excelled in 
the United States, and can always fui'nish to their custom- 
ers at short notice, by dii'ect orders, what their own large 
stock fails to supply. They are also agents for two of the 
most substantial manufacturing firms in the country, viz : 
" The Howard Watch and Clock Co.," and the " Gorham 
Manufacturing Company," the largest manufactui'ers of 
Sterling Silvei' Ware in the loorld. The advantages offered 
to their retail customers by these agencies are a very large 
and well assorted stock to select from, and at the schedule 
prices of the companies. 

The Howard Watch and Clock Company manufacture 
the most reliable American watch in the market, as well as 
the finest counting-house clocks, regulators, watchman de- 
tector clocks and electric clocks. They make no inferior 
or low-priced goods, as is the case with so many other 
American makers, and any purchaser of a genuine Howard 
watch can depend upon its being an accurate timepiece 

The Gorham Manufacturing Company is universally 
known in this country, (and their fame is now also Euro- 
pean,) for the originality of their designs in silver and 
plated ware, the exquisite beauty and finish of all their 
work, and that combination of elegance and taste with 
economy in fabrication, (effected by machinery) which en- 
ables them to fui'nish a choice and beautiful article of sil- 
verware at a price no greater than for ordmary goods. 
Messrs. A. B. Griswold and Co., notwithstanding the age 
of their fii-m, are by no means old fogies, but ai'e fully alive 
to the exigencies of the times, and realize the fact that 
those who would do a successful business now, must do it 
on the basis of " quick sales and small profits." They 
guarantee theLi' goods in every respect, and offer in all 
cases a first-class article at the lowest market price. With 
a record behind them of some fy'ty-eight years of honorable 
dealing, we think oiu' I'eaders, both citizens and strangers, 
cannot transact their business in New Orleans more safely 
and satisfactorily with any firm in that line, than with 
Messrs. A. B. Griswold and Co. 



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The MECirAxics' and Traders' Bank, is situated on 
Camp street, occupying only an ordinary house, c-ompared 
to some others, and recjuires no particular description. 
Capital $2,0(10,000. 



JEWELL'S CRESCENT CITY ILLUSTRATED. 




OIA.T if A^Ul MW' 



IT SAXL. 



The corner stone of the above statue was laid by the 
Clay Statue Association of New Orleans on the l-2th of 
April, lS5(i. 

The inauguration, which called out one of the grandest 
and largest public gathings that ever took place in New Or- 
leans, was on the 12th of AjH-il, 1860. On that occasion. 
Col. J. B. Walton acted as Grand Marshal and Col. J. O. 
Nixon as First Assistant Marshal. 

J. Q. A. Fellows appeard at the head of the Masons as 
Grand Master. 

Gerard Stith, now of the " Pecayune " office, was Mayor of 
the city at that time. 

Joel T. Hart, of Kentuky, the artist who gave form and 
proportions to the CA&j Statue, was present at the inaugu- 
ration. 

Wni. H. Hunt, Esq., was orator of the day. 

He said, that in 1 852, a number of public spirited citi- 
zens detei-mined to erect a bronze statue of Henry Clay. 
They entrusted the work of making the statue to Joel T. 
Hart, of Kentucky. 

" We are here to-day to dedicate this statue, the statue 
of Heni-y Clay." 

" Behold, his life-like image stands before you. No 
royjil robes adorn his person ; no crown, no sceptre, no 
badges of ancestral glory. No sword is by his side to tell 
of battles fought and won ; no baton to indicate the pomp 
and power of authority. 

" A plain man in the simple garments of a citizen ; his 



image challeges not our adrftiration through the adventi- 
tio>is aids of rank, or the tinsel ornaments of military glory. 
But he stands before us as we knew him, as we loved and 
honored him, the embodiment of the geniiis, of the wisdom, 
of the eloquence, of the courage, of the public viitue, of 
self-sacrifice, of the patriotism which filled the measure of 
his country's glory, and made his name and his fame im- 
mortal." 

" A circle of fifty feet in diameter, .surmounted with an 
iron railing, and a flight of hexagon shape granite steps, 
each one smaller than the one on which it lests, forms the 
foundation on which the pedestal and statue rest. The 
pedestal, like the firm foundation, is of gi-anite, fitting em- 
blem of the lasting fame of the subject of the lasting figure 
which stands upon its top. 

" The statue itself is a perfect likeness of the illustrious 
statesman. Its height is about fifteen feet. This, with the 
height of the foundation circle, steps and pedestal, makes 
it stand some foity feet high, an oinament to our grand 
and beautiful thoi'oughfai e. Canal street." 

CRESCENT HALL. 



This building was originally erected by Cornelius Pauld- 
ing, Esq., about the year 1826. In 1858 it was purchased 
by Mrs. Cora A. Slocomb, and remodeled into a hotel, 
known as the " Merchants." In 18(55, Col. A. W. .Mcrriam 
transformed it into a Billiard Hall. 



JEWELL'S CRESCENT CITY ILLUSTRATED. 



HENRY HOWARD, ESQ. 



This well-lniown and accomplished architect was bom in 
the city of Cork, Ireland, February 8th 1818, where he re- 
mained till he reached the age of eighteen years. He piir- 
sued his education at the Mechanics' Institute of that city, 
and received from his father, Thomas Howard, a noted 
builder, of Cork, the first rudiments of Architectural draw- 
ing and a knowledge of Mechanics. Owing to his father's 
death which took place when he was sixteen years of age, he 
emigrated, in the Spring of 1836, from his native city to 
New York, with a view to continuing the study of archi- 
tecture with an American architect. In this particular he 
was at first disappointed. Arriving in New York on the 8th 
of May 18.36, after the great fire, he had to go into a Look- 
ing-glass and Picture-Frame Makei''s establishment, where 
he remained eighteen months. 

Being desirous of seeing an older brother living, at that 
time in New Orleans, he left New York for the South, and 
arrived here on the 20th of September 18.37, in the height 
of the prevalence of the Yellow Fever, a disease, which, 
notwithstanding its frequent oecui-renee in New Orleans, 
he has hitherto fortunately escaped. On arriving in this 
city, he undertook all kinds of carpenter's and joiner's 
work, including the most difficult branch of it, viz, stair 
building, commanding at first, only journeyman's wages. 
He shrank from no ta.sk on account of its difficulty, worked 
with diligence and rapidity, and always studied the welfare 
of his employers. After being engaged in this way about 
five years, he was promoted to a foremanship under the 
late E. W. Sewell, a well-known builder. 

In 1849, he pursued the study of Architecture for a short 
time, with the late Col. James H. Dakin, an able architect 
of this city; also, during the same year, with Henry Mol- 
hausen, a Prussian, a good surveyor and civil engineer. 

In 1845, Mr. Howard commenced the erection of a large 
brick ountry residence on Baj'ou Lafourche, for the late 
Thomas Pugh, Esq. After its completion, he opened in 
1848, an Architect's office in Exchange Place, and, in order 
to execute and finish with despatch the large amount of 
business entrusted to his care, he was in the habit, during 
the first few years of his professional practice, of working 
and studying from eighteen to twenty hours a day. His 
employment and success were uninterrupted till the oc- 
currence of the late war, during the continuance of which 
he was employed as principal draughtsman in the Confed- 
erate States Naval Iron Works at Columbus, Georgia. 

After the war was over, he returned to New Orleans and 
resumed the practice of his profession, and, notwithstand- 
ing dull times, high taxation and other troubles, has had, 
up to the present time, a fair share of business, sufficient 
to give himself and his numerous family a handsome living. 

In the year 1839, while working at stair-building, he mar- 
ried in this city Miss Richards, a native of New York, by 
whom he has had eleven children — eight girls and three 
boys. Of these, there are surviving six daughters and two 
sons ; also grand-children, the oldest being eleven years 
of age. 



The following is a list of the buildings erected in this 
city from designs and specifications furnished by Mr. How- 
ard, and, in most instances, under his personal supervision. 

PUBLIC BUILDINGS IN THE CITT: 

First Presbyterian Church, Lafayette Square; 

Second Presbyterian Church, Washington Square; 

St. Peter's Roman Catholic Church, Third District; 

Importers' Bonded Warehouse, Second District; 

Hale's Warehouse, Fii'st District; 

Buildings for Louisiana Fair Gi'ounds; 

Engine House and Engine Foundations for Commercial 
Water Works ; 

Zoelly's Brewery Buildings, corner of Magazine and 
Delord .street; 

Home Mutual Insurance Buildings, First District; 

Crescent Mutual Insiu-anee Building, First District ; 

Conery's Stores, corner of Common and Water streets: 

Avendano's Store, corner of Delta and Common streets ; 

Remodelling Equitable (late Tulaiie) Building, Camp st.; 

Extensive addition to Jewish Widows' ami Orphans' 
Home, corner of Jackson and Chippewa sts.. Fourth Dist.; 

St. Elizabeth Asylum, Magazine street, Foui'th District; 

Protestant Boys' Orphan Asylum, on St. Charles avenue. 
Sixth District; 

Catholic Orphan Boys' Asylum, Third District; 

New Syphilitic Wards and Dissecting Rooms at the 
Charity Hosijital, Common Street. 

PRIVATE BUILDINGS IN THE CITT: 

Pontalba Buildings, Jackson Square, Second District; 
Hale's Five Dwellings, Camp Street, First District; 
Conery's Dwellings, Prytania Street, Fii-st District; 
Cyprien Dufours's Dwelling, Esplanade street; 
Vi'edenburg's Dwelling, Esplanade street; 
Burthe's Suburban Residence St. Charles avenue; 
Palacio's Sulnirban Residence, St. Charles avenue; 
Miltenberger's Dwelling, St. Charles avenue ; 
Grinnan & Short's Villa, Prytania street. Fourth Dist.; 
Buildings Nos. 8, 9 and 1.3 Commercial place. 

PUBLIC AND PRIVATE BUILDINGS IN THE COUNTRY. 

Thomas Pugh's Residence, Bayou Lafourche, Pari,sh of 
Assumptions ; 

W. W. Pugh's Residence, Bayou Goula, Parish of 
Ibei'ville ; 

John H. Randolijh's Residence, Rayou Goula, Parish of 
Iliei'ville ; 

General R. Camp s Residence, Bayou Goula, Parish of 
Ibei'ville ; 

Remodelling Louis La Bourgeois' Residence, Parish of 
St. James ; 

Court House and Prison, Carrollton, Parish of Jefferson; 

Court House and Prison, Thibodeaux, Parish of La- 
fourche ; 

C'ourt House, Donaldsonville, Parish of Terrebone; 

Presbyterian Church. Houma, Parish of Terrebone; 

Episcopal Chm-ch, Houma, Parish of Terrebone ; 

Episcopal Church, Bayou Goula, Parish of Iberville. 



JEWELL'S CRESCENT CITY ILLUSTRATED. 



REV. JOSEPH P. B. WILMER, D.D., BISHOP OF 
THE EPISCOPAL CHURCH OF LOUISIANA. 



Tins learned and eloquent prelate is of a Maryland fam- 
ily, well-known in the annals of that State. He removed 
in early childhood to Virginia. He was educated at Ken- 
yon College, Ohio, from which he received his first degi-ee. 
His ministerial life passed in Vu-ginia, where he married 
into the Skipwith family, and where he lived in charge of 
a pai-ish, until he accepted a call to St. Mark's Chiu-eh in 
Philadelphia. He received his Degi-ee of Doctor of Divinity 
from Union College, Schenectady, N. T. He resigned his 
parish in Philadelphia, at the commencement of hostilities 
between the North and South, believing that the course 
pursued by the former towards the latter was not only un- 
constitutional but unchristian, and feeling that he could 
not conscientiously invoke the blessing of Heaven on the 
success of a cause essentially unjust. On thus severing his 
connection with the North, and with a people to whom he 
was greatly attached, and who regarded him with love and 
veneration, and deeply regreting the step which, from a 
sacred regard to principle and a deep sense of duty, he felt 
himself compelled to adopt, he returned to his estate in 
Virginia and remained in retirement with his family till the 
close of the war. He was, soon after, elected to the Epis- 
copate of Louisiana, and removed to this city. 

Bishop Wilmer is about five feet eight inches in height, 
compactly built, with strongly knit and well-proportioned 
limbs, blue eyes, broad forehead, fail- complexion, open 
countenance, plants himself firmly on his feet, gesticulates 
l)ut little, and has a clear, rich and ringing voice suited to 
an orator, and reaching, without difficulty, the remotest 
parts of a large church. His head is silvered over with the 
snows of nearly three score years, but his aspect in the pul- 
l)it, when animated by his .subject, is that of a man of forty 
or forty -five at the utmost. His manner is rather calm and 
dignified than impassioned; but he immediately arrests 
attention by the strong and generous thoughts that spring 
from his heart, and by the order and convincing force of 
his arguments. No scholar is a greater master of pure, 
vigorous, flexible and elegant English. No divine of the 
Church of England, or of any other chui-ch, is more liberal 
and tolerant in his opinions, nor more free from cant. He 
makes no compromise, however, with vice, folly or egotism, 
which he regards proper subjects of I'cbuke or censure. 

He is a fine conversationalist, and the attentive listener 
knows not which to admire most, the breadth of his intel- 
lect, the extent of his information, or the goodness of his 
heart. The interests of Christianity and of the church are 
uppermost in his mind, and those who are honored by his 
friendship never fail to be impressed by the loftiness of his 
motives, and the extent of his charity. His object, in his 
interviews with others, seems to be to render the obliga- 
tions of truth more imperative, and the Christian virtues 
more attractive than they were before. He has a decided 
antipathy to political preachers, political sennons, and 
politic^al prayers, regarding them fruitful sources of the 
skepticism that prevails in -this country at this time. 

When the illustriovis General Lee, at the close of the late 



war, doubted as to the expediency of acceptmg the invitation 
he had received to take charge of Lexington (afterwards 
Washington) College, he visited Dr. Wilmer to consult 
with him on the subject of his duty in this matter. At 
first Dr. Wilmer endeavored to dissuade the General from 
accepting so humble a post, adding that the Presidency of 
the Virginia University would be more suitable for him. 
The people of Virginia, and of the whole South, would be 
proud, he said, to see him placed at the head of their time- 
honored University. 

General Lee, thanking the Doctor for his flattering pro- 
posal and promised aid in consummating it, promptly but 
decidedly declined, saying that Providence seemed to have 
clearly opened the way to his acceptance of the Lexington 
College, where he thought there would be a sphere of use- 
fulness which would task his powers to the utmost. 

His friend was deeply affected by his arguments, yielded 
to the modesty of this truly great man, acquiesced in his 
judgment, and embraced him with a degi'ee of warmth 
which honest s\Tnpathy alone could inspire. " Now,' ' said 
the latter, " I listen to you with pleasure." 

The two friends, it is said, then discussed, in extenso, the 
great questions of education, and General Lee proceeded 
to organize and establish the Washington College, and to 
place it on a footing which has made it one of the most cel- 
ebrbrated and valuable educational institutions in the 
country. A fairer illustration of the spirit of true Chris- 
tianity cannot be furnished than was exhibited by those 
two eminent men on this occasion. 

Dr. Wilmer, for the space of two years, was a Chaplain 
in the Ameiican Navy, duiing which engagement he vis- 
ited various centres of civilization, among others thrice 
visited England. Few Americans have enjoyed finer op- 
portunities for observation, and an extensive knowledge of 
mankind. He has four children — a daughter and three 
sons. One of his sons is a practitioner at law in the City 
of Baltimore. 

MAJ. JOHN H. NEW. 



Ma.j. New within a few years has succeded in placing 
himself in the front rank of his profession. 

He is a native of Louisville, Ky. 

He commenced the study of the law in the University of 
Mississippi. He afterwards graduated with high honors 
in Harvard College, Mass. 

He first went to practice at Baton Rouge, where he soon 
made himself known for his intellect and legal lore. 

In 18G1 when the South resorted to ai-ms, Maj. New- 
served in Gen. Hays' brigade as Adjutant Genral and dis- 
tinguished himself for his ability, ready knowledge and 
efficiency, in the discharge of his duties. 

After the war Maj. New settled in New Orleans and 
devoted his attention to the practice of his profession. 
He has since visited the principal cities of Europe. 

As a lawyer he is noted for the quickness of his jjercep- 
tion. In an examination he fathoms the inmost thoughts 
of witnesses. Although genei-ally dispassionate, ho is an 
excellent speaker. 



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APPENDIX. 



strangers' Guide and Business Directory. 




t A, "W Hif ii Mam. 



.A.IDMIKTIST^^I^-A.TOTl.S. 



LOUIS SCHNEIDER, Administrator of FmANCE. 

JOHN CALHOUN, ------ » " Accouxts. 

H. F. STRUCKEN, ------ " " Assessments. 

C. FITZENREITER, ------ " " Water Works. 

JAMES LEWIS, ------ " " PuBEic Improvements. 

B. M. TURNBULL, .-----" " Commerce. 
ROBERT REWSTER, ----- " " Police. 

GEO. S. LACET, ------ City Attorney. 

HENRY WALSHE, Assistant City Attorney. 

J B CARTER - - Superintendent Pcni.ic Schools. 

S WEEKS ------- " Fire Alarm and Police Telegraph. 

A S B\DGER .-----. " Metropolitan Police. 

J. E. DUTILLET, ------ " Insane Asylum. 

J. A. NOBLE, " WOK"^ Ho^s^- 

C. DAVISSON, Librarian. 

E. W. HALSEY ------ Secretary of the Mayor. 

PAN. SCULLY ------ Secretary of the Board of Administrators. 



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City Not.vky. 


A. tiH-tHJ, J K., 


X>IST3FHOT JXJ3DGm3S. 




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- 1st District Court. 


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.A.T?T?OH.I^E3"K' S--A. rr-TLM .A. "V\7 


ATTORWEYS AT LAW. 


DeOiav, K. 


llutilieson, K. 


Kacc. Foster it E. T. Merriek 




IH'JciM. .1. A. 


Hvauis it .loii.is 


KaiidolphSiiiijlctoii it Browne 


Atorli.i. A. A. 


Duneuro, C. Taylor 


llslcv. Johnll. 


K.-iwle, Edward 


Aii;;ii-tiii. 1). 


Dciicarc. \V. O. 


jcwOii, E. r,. 


Keid, S. C. 


Aimiistiji. .1. D. 


Dciinoe & Mlcliel 


Johnson & Denis 


Pice. Charles S. 


li:ili.r. V. W. 


Diiikclspk'l. Max. 


Kellv. E. C. 


h'ire. Joseph A. 


r>:niii-It. .Idliii J. 


Dinliamincr it KuniLird 


KellV. II. B. 


];iihardson. Frank L. 


li.ni;. A. 


Doolcy. .M. A. 


Kellv. \T. F. 


Pi-hror. X. 11. 


Hai-ilcltc. T. A. 


Droiict. (i. 


Keiulall.Geor.irc AV\ 


P.'.bert. Alexis 


I'.i'tU. 'ril(illl:l5 J. 


Diiluiisson. M. B. 


Keiniedv it Ciiiaiielhi 


Poherts. Percv 


i'.clrhcr. C. 


1)iil;iip. Ili'iirv 


Ker. I{.'J. 


liobertM.n. J.B. 


UclllcM. .1. K. 


Diiiiuo. l{ol)i''rt G. 


Kcir it Slaydcii 


Po-eis. W. 11. 


licMfii. Siiiu'Oii 


Diiviyiicauil. .Joseph 


Koontz. W'. B. 


Pomaii. .1. J. 


IJcmiss. C. I'. 


Karliart. l". B. 


Eabatt it .\roiii 


Poselins it Philips 


IU'IidikUv.. IC. 


Kchvards. W. W. 


I.ai-ev it Biitlcr 


h'o/ier. .1. Ad. 


I{cs.iMrou. (:l;irl< AV. 


Kuan. Beiitiiick 


Eanraster, W. B. 


Po/.ier. Valle J. 


I?i's;iiiioii. C. \V. 


Klliott. B. C. 


T.an.u'dou. 'I'liomas 


Sabourin. Ernest 


rJieiivc'Uii. (lini Ics 


Klliott, .lolm F. 


Eancr. Etieniie 


Sadler. Geor-e W. 


Hillings & IJii-lies 


Kills T. it. r. 


I.ea. I'Miiney it Miller 


Saoe. B. .1. 


I!l:iHc. S. 


Elmore it Kill!; 


T.eneiiilre it I'oelic 


Sambobi it Diu-ros 


r.uiuicr. .ir.iiM yi. 


EiKtU. .J.B. ' 


I.eMoiinier..lolin 


.s.aiicicr it Michinard 


linicllonl. li. 11. &J. L. 


rello« es. E. T. & E. J. 


Leovy & Monroe 


Sau \ er it Harding 


Hl:iui;liii it I'.iirk 


Eellowsit Mills 


Lewi's. A. C. 


Scliniidt. C. E. 


15ixMii\. I'ciiuoi- it Hall 


Feruuson. .1. H. 


l.ew-is, A.J. 


.Srliniidt, Glistiivus 


I5n-uci-. .1. 


F'eriianilez. G. 


l/ni^an. .lames 


,Sclimidl,.I. B. J. 


I5ii. c. A. 0. 


Field. A. P. 


Eiviiudais. A. E. 


Scott. W. T. 


HiitUull. .). X. 


Filleul. E. 


Eivauilais. M. E. 


Sci;liers. .lulian .A. 


HricHniie. Aiiatole 


Finney, John J. 


Livingston. J. 


Seinines. A. G. 


l{ii,:;li'l. (jfi)i j-c L. 


Formaii, B. It. 


Lonj^ue. Charles 


Semmcs it .Mott 


Binu II. George 


Fonke, I'. B. 


Luzcnljeri;-. C. U. 


Shacklelord. Itichard 


IJiowii. s. n 


Foiite. M. A. 


Jlayioiii. .loseph 


Shannon. Kobert U. 


Bivnii. 11. 11. Jr. 


Fox Charles, H. 


Jlaiisticld. E. S. 


Sheldon. L. A. 


IJrvon. 1). S. 


Freeman. John D. 


Marr. li. H. 


Simonds. L. E. 




F'uUcr, James 


iAIav, C. Rodney 


Smith. .lohn P. 


Biiil.UH-ke, C. B. 


Fiisclier, F. 


Jle'Caleb, Howard E. 


Snaer. .S. H. 


t'ainlir.iy. K. 


Gastinel. .Arthur 


MeCartv, A. 


Soniaf. Cli.arles T. 


Caiiioioii. 'riicocloic 


Gayarre, Charles 


MeCay.T. S. 


Strawbridne, James 


('.•iiu|il)('ll. (ilveu 


Geriion. M. 


MeConiiell, .fames 


Taylor. .Miles 


Cainiilicll. .1. A. 


Gibson it .Austin 


iMcGary. \V. L. 


Terieboiine. V. D. 


C'aii<>u;;(,' it Ca/.al)at 


Glllonl. E. 


JleGloin it Kleinpeter 


'i'liomas, q. A. 


(apiU'vifllc, I'aiil 


Gill, T. .M. 


Mel'lieliii. .lohii 


Thorpe, 11. S. 


C'.isc it Kiiiisi,' 


Gilmiire. Thomn'; it Sous 


Meiinier. E. 


Timonv. -lames 


Casiollaiii)^. Henry C. 


Golilinan. l)a\ iil 


Meunier. .lerome 


Ti>sot.'A. L. 


(liainheilaiii. F. (;. 


Gonlaii. \V. Alex. 


Michel, .lulien 


Tissot, .1. L. 


t'liarvcl it Diiplaiitier 


Grahaui. .lame.s 


Mieou. .Auuustin 


Trist it Olivier 


flaihoiMO. Charlos R 


Grant. \\'illiam 


Wilhotr. William, Jr. 


Trudeaii. A. 


C'laiUo. Baviii' it Koiisliaw 


Grinia. .Mired 


Mix. K. C. 


Tiilly. John S. 


CIciv. Ciia'rlos 


Grivot, Maiiriec 


Jlorel. Christoval 


Upton. Hoi-.ace E. 


(liiitoii. .1. W. 


Grow, John A. 


Jlorol. Ernest 


\'iavant. .\unustiii 


Cliiitoii. 'I'hiiinas P. 


(iuillet. Edward C. 


Mornan. H. G. 


Villeic. A. .r. 


Cohcii. Mvcr.M. 


Hale. William G. 


Morgan. 1'. H. 


Voorhies. .\lbert 


(■..uiiis. t; .s. 


Hall. G. L. 


i\luri)hv, William E. 


Wala.e. J. E. 


Coliiiaii. .1. r. 


Hall, H.H. 


Oj;den,"A. X. 


W.ilker. Alexander 


< ominaiKlcur. Xic-liolas 


Haidinu-. L. 


Oj;den. Charles G. 


Walker. J.ames C. 


Coiiiail it Sou 


Hart. I'. B. 


On-den. Henry D. 


W:dker. Samuel |{. & C. L. 


Cook'V. 'I'lioinas J. 


Hawkins it Tharn 


O'ydeii. II. X. 


Wallace it ilaiidliii 


CoolcV. W. 11. 


Hays it New 


Ou-deii. Kobert X. 


Waplcs, linlus 


fddiioy. .Iciliii M. 


Jlornor it Benedict 


Oij-den. \V. F. 


AV:irien. 10. 


Cotton it l.cvy 


llonslon.W. T. 


O'Sullivan, E. 


Washini;-toii. E. K. 


Crai^. Knimet D. 


]Ioward,.lohn B. 


I'ierce, J. Caldwell 


Wenckit lliiitt 


Crane. W. \l. 


Howard, Thom.is II. 


Philips, A. B. 


W'liitaker, .1. S, 


C'iill)erls()ii..IoIm 


Ilndsoii, it Fearn 


Phillips. K. 


Wbit.iker, William R. 


Culloni. K. X. 


Hushes. I). M. C. 


Pilot. .\. 


While, E, I). 


Curicll. .I.B. 


Hunt, Carlton 


Blaiichard it Kramer 


Whitney, Charles E. 


Cutler, n. Kiiio: 


Himr, liaiidal 


Poole. W. S, 


AYhittemore. E. X. 


Ciivcllicr. 1'. Chas. 


Hunt. -p. G. 


Prentiss, S. S. 


Wilson. .1. N. .\. 


Dal-licimcr. Alox. 


Hunt. Williain H. 


Preston. Kobert S. 


Woolilrid-e it Thomas 


DalloH. liolicrt 


Iliiniin-ton. Ivlward \V. 


Prire. II. H. 


Work. Phillip A. 


Dav. 1.. .Maili^oii 


Hnntoii it Grover 


(.iiiintero, Joseph A. 


Zacliane, F. ,C. 

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ACADEMIES. 

ACADK^rY OF SCIEN'CK. L. Unv., cor. 

C'oiuiiiOM and Biiiroiiiie, eiit. Burioiiue. 
ACADK.MY OK THE HOLY ANGELS. 

Conil. by tlio Sisters of the Holy Cross, 

liainp.iit. N. W. cor. Congress. 
ACADKJIY OF OUK LADY OF THE SA- 
CKED HEAUr. Coiul. by tlie Marioiiite 

Sisters of llic Holy Cross, 50 ;iuil 5S Hos- 
pital. 
ACADEMY OF THE SACRED HEAKT. 

Emily Gardiner, Siii)"r., i)(i Uiimaiu. 
BOYS" CLASSICAL AND COMMERCLVL 

ACADEMY, li. .M. Lnsher, i'riii. -247 St. 

Charles, op. 'I'ivoli Circle. 
BOYS- ELEJIE.NTAJIY CLAS. AND COM- 
MERCIAL ACADEMY. A. Cordiers, 

I'rin. "253 Johnson, cor. ot Barracks. 
ENGLISH, FRENCH AND GERMAN 

ACADEMY. Robinson, N. W. cor. St. 

Ann. 
FRECH'S ACADEMY. Lonis A. Freeh, 

I'rni. 82 Hospital. 
ST. ALOYCIOUS' ACADEMY. Cond. by 

Bros, of the Sacred Heart, Chartres cor. 

Barracks. 
ST JOHN'S COMMERCLVL .\CADEMY, 

(private). John Dimitry, Frin. Dryades 

coi'. Clio. 
ST. FRANCIS ACADEJIY, (girls). Sister 

Victoria Meiisoiiier, 5S5 Villere, N. W. cor. 

Marigny. Jrd Dist. 
ST. JOSEPH'S ACADEMY, (girls). Sister 

Stevens, snperior, Xil St. I'hilip. 
ST. Vl.XCENi'S ACADEMY, Bro. Albiaii. 

Diiector, Na|)olcon av., bet. Magazine and 

Canij). 
ST. Vl.XCEXT DE I'AUL'S ACADEMY, 

(boys). Rev. Father Kolticr, Director. 

Daniihin bet. Clnet and Montegnt, 3rd 

l;ist. 
ST. VINCENT DE I'AUL'S ACADEMY, 

(girls). Cond. by the Sisters of the Holy 

Cross. Danphiii bet. Clnet and Montegnt. 
ST. MAURlCJi A(;.VDEMY. Trico, cor. 

Chiu'tres 



ASYLUMS. 

ASYLtTM FOR DESTITUTE ORPHAN 

BUYS— ss. St. Charles, bet. Valmont and 

Dufossat, JetVerson City. 
ASY'LUM FOR THE LITTLE SISTERS 

OF THE POOR— Sister Marie Claire. 

prin. Laharpe, bet. Johnson and Prienr. 
BEAUREGARD ASYLUM— Paidine, bet. 

St. Claude and Rampart. 
BOY'S HOUSE OF REFUGE— PeriUiat, sc. 

cor. Magnolia. 
CHILDREN'S HOJIE (Episcopal) — Miss 

Kate Lyini, prin., Jackson, bet. Chippewa 

and St. Thomas. 
FEMALE ASY'LUM OF THE IMMACU- 
LATE CONCEPTION— S71 Rampart, coi-. 

Elmira, 3il dist. 
FEMALE ORPH.VN ASY'LUM OF OUR 

LADY' OF Mi'. CARMEI.— Sister St. 

Jean Baptiste, prin. 53 Piety, bet. Dan- 

phine and Royal. 
GERMAN PROTESTANT ASY^LUM— P. 

Schnmann. siipt. State, bet. C:uiip and 

Cliesniit, Bnrtheville. 
GIRARD ASY'LUM— Metairie id., bet. St. 

Lonis and Conti. 
HOME FOR THE AGED AND INFIRM— 

JIary S. Giittin, directress, Tchonpitonlas, 

s\v. cor. 2d. 
HOME FOR THE AGED AND INFIRM— 

Mrs. Ann Gorman, matron, Washington 

av. cor. Locnst. 



HOUSE OF REFUGE FOR DESTITUTE 
GIRLS — Mrs. Eleanor Stokes, matron, 
Aniuniciation, s\v. cor. Calliope. 

HOUSE OF THE GOOD SHEPARD— Sis- 
ter Mary Rose, snperior, Bienville, bet. 
Broad and Dolhonde. 

INDIGENT COLORED ORPHAN ASY- 
LUM— V. Dupart, pres. 393 Danphine. 

INSANE ASY'LUM — John E. Dntillet, 
snpt. Orleans, bet. Marais and Liberty. 

JEWISH WIDOWS AND ORPHANS 
ASY'LUM — .Jackson, cor. Chiijpewa, Levi 
Shoenberg, snpt. 

LOUISIANA RETREAT INSANE ASY'- 
LUM — Sister Savarrina, snperior, Nash- 
ville av. s\v. cor. Magazine, lliirstville. 

NEW ORLEANS FEM.YLE ORPHAN 
ASY'LUM — Sister Maiy Margaret, prin. 
Clio, bet. Camp and Prytania. 

NEWS BOY'S' HOME— C. R. Boss, supt. 
1G5 Franklin. 

POY'DRAS ORPHAN ASY'LUM FOR FE- 
MALES — Magazine, bet. Leontine and 
Peters, Jetlerson. 

PROTESTANT ORPHAN HOME— Mrs. 
Pargond, pres.; Mrs. Wilbnr, viie-pres. ; 
Mrs. Ginder, sec. ; Mrs. Carroll, treas. 
7th, cor. Constance. 

PROVIDENCE ASY'LUM FOR COLORED 
FEMALE CHILDREN— Mary B.Atkins, 
directress. Hospital, cor. Tonti. 

ST. ANNA'S ASYLUM— Mrs. James Clark, 
pres. ; Mi's. R. Charles, sec. Prytania, 
cor. St. Mary. 

ST. ELIZABETH ORPHAN ASY'LUM— 
East side Magazine, bet. St. Andrew and 
Josephine. 

ST. JOSEPH ORPHAN ASY'LUM— Laii- 
lel, bet. Josephine and St. Andrew. 

ST. MARY'S ORl'HAN BOYS' ASY'LUM 
— Charties. bet. Mazant and French. 

ST. yiXtJENTS HALF-ORPHAN ASY'- 
LUJI — Sister Ernestine, snperior. Cam- 
bronne, bet. 'li\ and Bnrthe, Carrollton. 

ST. VINCENT'S HOME FOR BOY'S— 371 
Bienville. 

ST. VINCENT'S INFANT ASYLUM- 
Magazine, cor. Race. 



BOARD OF BROKERS. 

9 CARONDELET ST.' UP STAIRS. Geo. 
C. Lawrason, pres. ; Francis Rawlc, vice- 
pres. 



BANKING INSTITUTIONS. 

BANK OF AMERICA— Canal St., cor. Ex- 
change place. Incorporated 1857. Capi- 
tal .$507,800. Offering days. Tnesdays and 
Fridays. Discount days, Wednesdays and 
Satin-days. 

BANK OF I>AFAY'ETTE— Cor. M.agazine 
and St. Mary sts., 4tli dist. 

BANK OF LOUISIANA— (In liqnidation.) 

BRANCH OF THE FREEDMAN'S SAV- 
ING AND TRUST COM'Y— 114 Caronde- 
let. 

CANAL BANK— Cami>. cor. Gravier. In- 
corporated 1831. Capital. $1,000,000. Dis- 
connt days, AV'ednesdays and Saturdays. 

CITIZENS BANK OF LOUISIANA— Cus- 
tom House, cor. Royal. 

CONSOLIDATED ASSOCIATION OF THE 
PLANTERS OF LOUISIANA — Henri 
Peychaud, pres.; H. L. Peire, cashier. 
(iG Toulouse. 

CRESCENT CITY' BANK— Carondelet, cor. 
Union. Capital $400,200. Ollering day, 
Tuesday. Discount day, Wednesday. 



GERMANIA NATIONAL BANK (late City 
National). 52 Camp. Capital, |300,0G0. 
Ottering days, Mondays and Thursdays. 

HIBERNIA BANK OF NEW ORLE.\NS 
—117 Camp. Capital. $500,000. Discount 
days, Tuesday and Friday. 

THE LOUISIANA SAVINGS B.\NK AND 
SAFE DEPOSIT CO.— 51 Camp. 

MECHANICS' AND TR>^ERS' BANK 
OF NEW ORLEANS.— 4a Canal. Capi- 
tal, $750,000. Discounts every day. 

MERCHANTS' BANK.— 48 Camp. 

MUTUAL N.YTIONAL BANK OF NEW 
OR LE ANS— lOG Canal. Capital, $500,000. 
Privilege, $1,000,000. 

MEIROPOLITAN LOAN, SAVINGS AND 
PLEDGE BANK — 14 Camp. Capital, 
$500,000. 

NEAV ORLEANS NATIONAL BANKING 
ASSOCIATION. — 102 Canal. Capital, 
$000,000. Discount every day. 

NEW ORLEANS NATIONAL BANK— 54 
Camp. Capital, $500,000. 

NEW ORLEANS SAVINGS INSTIl'U- 
TION— 187 Canal. 

SOUT'HERN BANK— 11 St. Charles st. In- 
corporated 1852. Capital, $1,000,000. Dis- 
comit days, Wednesdays and Satiu-days. 

STATE NATIONAL BANK OF NEW 
ORLEANS (late Louisiana State Baidi)— 
31 and 33 Camp, and 131 Gravier. Otter- 
ing days, Tuesilays; answers, 12 M., Wed- 
nesdays. 

TEUTONIA NATIONAL BANK OF NEW 
ORLEANS.— 28 Camp. 

THE LOUISIANA NATIONAL BANK OF 
NEW ORLEANS— 120 and 122 Common, 
bet. C.nnp and St. Charles. Capital, 
$1,000,000. 

PEOPLE'S BANK OF NEW ORLEANS— 
Old Levee, corner St. Peter. 

UNION BANK OF LOUISIANA— 3 Caron- 
delet. Incorporated 1854. Capital, $000,- 
000. Discoiuit days, Tuesdays and Fri- 
days. 



CEMETERIES. 

American Cemetery, Basin, bet. St. Louis 

and Conti. 
Cemetery of the Ev. Luth. St Johns Church, 

Canal, bet. Anthony aiul Bernadotte. 
Charity Hos|iital Cemeteiy, head of Can.al. 
Cypi'ess Grove Cemetery, No. 2, Metairie, 

uc. cor. Canal. 
Fireman's Cemetery, ws. Canal, n. of Charity. 
Girotl Stieet Cemetery, Peter Barr, sexton, 

Libei'fy st. bet. Perrilliat and Cypress. 
Greenwood Cemetery, Metaire, se. corner 

Canal. 
Hebrew Cemetery, Canal, bet. Metairie and 

Anthony. 
Hebrew Cemetery, Jackson, cor. White. 
Lafayette Cemetery, No. 1, Washington, 

bet. Prytania and Coliseum. 



CHAMBER OF COMMERCE. 

Meets first Mond.ay of each month at Mer- 
chant's Exchange Building, 120 Common 
St. Jos. H. Oglesby, i)res.; Jas. T. Tucker, 
1st vice-iires. ; Edward Newman, 2d vice- 
pres. ; Wm. M. Burwell, sec. and treas. 

STANDING COMMITTEES. 

Committee on Arbitration — Messrs. E. H. 

Sanford, Summers, W. Cooper, A. H. 

Peale, D. AV. C. D. Cbaflraix, J. H. Pol- 

haiis, Maishal J. Smith. 
Committee on Appeals — Messrs. George A. 

Fosdick, Moses Greenwood. F. Dolhonde. 
W. B. Schmidt, Joseph West. 
Executive Committee — Messrs. G. L. Laugh- 



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laml, J. L. Dunnicii, C. E. Slayback, J. 
Prudhoimne, Jules Vairin. 
COMMITTEE OX RIVER OBSTRUC- 
'i'lONS— Messrs. G. I.. Laiiuhlaml, Mar- 
shall J. Smith, Alfred Moultou, L. J. Hig- 
by, J. S. Copes. 



N. 0. BOARD OF UNDERWRITERS. 

Meets at the ofR e of the Crescent Mutual 
Insurance Company every Tuesday. Thos. 
A. Adams. ])res. ; (Jharles Briifgs, vice- 
pres. ; H. P. Janvier, sec. ; L. W. Cooper, 
inspector; Arthur C. AVaugh, .agent for 
the Boards of Underwriters of New York, 
Boston, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Lloyds 
llabaiiers, Havana i Lloyd's of London, 
and Underwriters Association of Liver- 
pool, England. Office, 33 Carondelet. 



Dry Docks and Boat Builders. 

GOOD IXTEXT— 5th dist., ab. Canal (1st 

dist.) St. Ferry and head of Delaronde st. 
MAHOXyS BOAT YARD— Bet. id dist., 

(French Ferry) from St. Ann st. to Bouny. 
OCEAN DOCK— Two blocks below 2d dist. 

Ferry. 
MARINE DOCK— Three blocks below 2d 

dist. Ferry, foot of Laverone. 
VALLET DOCK— one block below 3rd dist. 

Ferry and foot. 



DRIVES for Pleasure Carriages. 

Canal St. to Metaire Kidge ; Bienville st. to 
Metaire Ridge ; Common st. to Metaire 
Ridge ; Delord st. (New Shell Road) to 
Lake ; St. Charles st. to CarroUton. 

ELEVATOR (GRAIN) BUILDINGS AND 
WHARF — Tchoiipitonlas, bet. Harmony 
and Pleasant. L. G. Higby & Son, props. 

EXPOSITION HALL-E.fr. on St. Charles, 
bet Girod and Julia, W. fr. Carondelet. 

FAIR GROUNDS AND BUILDINGS— 
N. s. Esplanade, nr. Bayou St. John. 



Foreign Consuls and Consular Agents 
in New Orleans. 

Austria, Bavaria and Baden, A. Eimer Ba- 
der. Consul, 17 Carondelet. 

Belgium. Alexander Marks, vice consul, 38 
Chartres. 

Brazil. A. F. Elliot, vice consul, 184 Gravier. 

Costa Rica, J. A. Quintero, consul, 5 Caron- 
delet. 

Danish, H. Frellsen, consul, 30 Magazine. 

France, Charles Fauconuet, acting consul, 
11 St. Louis. 

Great Britain, Denis Donohoe, consul. 
Henry V. Ogden. acting, 13 Carondelet 

Greece, N. M. Benachi, consul, 2 Caronde- 
let. 

Italy, FabioSanminiatelli, consul, 208 Royal. 

Mexico, R. S. Dias, consul, inu Chartres. 

Netherlands, A. M. Coutourie, 30 Decatur. 

Nicaragua, John E. Beylle, consul, room C. 
Gallier Court. 

Norway and Sweden, William M. Perkins, 
64 Carondelet. 

North German Confederation, .Tolin Krntt- 
schnitt, consul, 42 Perdido. 

Portugal, A. J. DaSilva, consul. T)? Decatur, 
2d dist. 

Republic of Mexico, Ramon Dias, consul, 19U 
Chart les. 

Russia, .1. F. Schroder, vice consul, 192 Gra- 
vier. 

Spain, Carlos Pie. consul 113 Daupliine. 

Switzerland, X. Wessenbach, consul, 44 Ca- 
rondelet. 



Venezuela. Anderson D. Dieter, consul, 27 

Carondelet. 
Wurtemburg, H. F. Klumpp, consul, 42 

Union. 



FERRIES. 

First dist. — New Orleans and Algiers ferry 

landing. Canal st. 
Second (list. — New Orleans and Algiers ferry 

lauding, St. Ann st. 
Third dist. — New Orleans and Algiers ferry 

landing, Elysiaii Fields st. 
Fourth dist. — New Orleans and Gretna ferry 

landing, Jackson st. 
Morgan's La. and Tex.as Railroad ferry — 

from foot of St. Aun St., to railroad depot, 

Algiers. 
Slaughterhouse Go's ferry — from and to 

slaughterhouses, Algiers. 
Bobb's Ferry — starts from foot of Louisi-aaia 

av. to Gretna. 



GASLIGHT COMPANIES. 

Jefferson City, F. G. Lockwood, sec. St. 

Charles, se. cor. Napoleon av. 
New Orleans Gaslight Co. James .Tackson, 

pres., W. S. Brown, Treas. Office, 159 

Common. Works, Gravier, bet. Freret 

and Magnolia. 



HOTELS. 

Carondelet House — M. Ainslie, prop. Ca- 
rondelet, ne. cor. Poydras. 
CarroUton Hotel — Daniel S. Hicock, prop. 

St. Charles, opp. Dublin, CarroUton. 
Cassidy's Hotel — Hugh Cassidy, prop., 38 

Carondelet and 172 Gravier. 
Central House — Mrs. M. J. Fisher, prop., 130 

and 132 Camp. 
City Hotel — R. S. Morse, prop.. Camp, cor. 

Common. 
Commercial Hotel — John C. Usener, prop., 

48 Girod. 
Conti Verandah — Mis. Louisa Schwartz, 

prop., 23, 25 and 27 Conti. 
Louisiana Hotel — 213 and 215 Tchoupitoulas 

street. 
Murphy's Hotel — Alex. Tavlor, prop., 98 and 

100 St. Charles. 
Oviatt House — Silas Oviatt, prop., 11 Dau- 
phin. 
St. Charles — Rivers & Lonsdale, proprs., St. 

Charles, bet. Common and Gravier. 
St. James — R. S. Morse, prop., es. Magazine, 

bet. Gravier and Natchez. 
St. Louis — St. Louis, bet. Ch.artres and 

Royal. 
Texas — J. J. Chenej', prop., Thayer, sw. cor. 

Verrct, 5th dist. 
Waverly Hotel— T. W. Kidder, prop., 101 

Camp and 129 Poydras. 



HOSPITALS AND INFIRMARIES. 
Hospitals. 

Charity Hospital — Common, bet. Lo<'ust and 
Howard. Othcers: Dr. II. Hiic, secre- 
tary and treasurer. Dr. A. W. Smith, 
house surgeon. Board of Administrators : 
Gov. H. C. Warmolh, jircs. Jacob Haw- 
kins, vice-pres. Hon. Michael llahn. R. 
W. Watson. J. C. LcCnarc Siilncy Thezan, 
John Stumj), Dominic Urban. 

City Hospital — Elysian Fields, near Miro. 



Hayes' House of Health — 131 Elysian Fields. 
Hospital de la Saint Famille, for colored 

willows. Francois Lacroix, supt. 40 St. 

Bernard. 
Hotel Dieu — ss. Common, bet. Johnson and 

Bertrand. Sister Tlieresa, supt. 
Marine Hospital — W. 11. Hire, physician, 

Broad, bet. Common and Gravier. 
Smallpox Hospital — Common, bet. H.igan 

av. and Genois. 



Infirmaries. 



Circus Street Infirmary — 132 and 134 Ram- 
part, 1st dist. 

Infirmary of the Sisters of Charity, Hotel 
Dieu, Common, bet. Bertram and John- 
son. Dr. P. C. Boyer. attending physi- 
cian and surgeon. Dr. Warren Stone, cou- 
sidting surgeon. 

Orleans Infirmary — 142 Canal St., conducted 
by Drs. S. Chopi)in, C. Beard, D. W. 
Brickell, and J. D. Burns. 

Touro Infirmary — L. B. Kane, pres. ws. 
Peters, bet. Calliope and Gaiennie. 



INCORPORATED COMPANIES. 

Crescent City Ice Company. J. F. Kranz, 
pres. ; J. J. E. Massicot, treas. 21 Camp. 

Crescent City Stock Landing, (left Bank), 
Front Levee, below Jackson Barracks. 

German Building Association, office. No. 10 
St. Peter st. Business hours from 9.30 
a. m. to 3 p. m. R. H. Schmidt, pres. 

Good Intent Tow Boat and Balize Telegraph 
Company ; W. G. Coyle, pres. , Edward A. 
Yorke, supt. ; Eugene Morris, sec. ; 35 
Carondelet. 

Louisiana Ice M.anufacturing Company — 
Tchoupitoulas, bet. Delaehaise and Aline. 
William T. Hepp, pres. ; D. Pochelu, sec. 
and treas. ; office, 58 Camp. 

Louisiana State Lottery Company — St. 
Charles, cor. Union. 

New Orleans Elevator and Warehouse Com- 
pany — ofiice, Louisiana National Bank 
Building, 120 Common St. L.J. Higby, 
pres. ; Len. Higby, sec. 

New Orleans Gas Light Company — office, 
1.59 Common st. James Jackson, pres.; 
Theobald Forstall, gen'l supt. ; William S. 
"Brown, treas. ; John Van Slooten, en- 
gineer. 

New Orleans Law Library Association — 
Courthouse, Chartres, opp. Jackson sq. 
J. Ad. Rozier, pres. ; T. L. Bayne, sec. 

New Orleans Sanitarj' and Fertilizing Co. 
Dr. F. Formento, jr. pres. ; E. G. Golden, 
secretar}\ Freret. cor. Clio. 

National Steam Transportation Company — 
office, 122 Gravier. Officers : Theo. W. 
Buddecke. pres. ; .J. M. Wagner, vice- 
pres. ; W. A. Bartlett, sec. ; DiTDeHaven. 
supt. 

New Orleans Sugar Shed Co — Office, 41 Ca- 
rondelet. Jules Blanc, pres.; Gustave 
Cuculu, sec. 

New Orleans Wrecking and Salvage Co. — 
E. K. Converse, pres. ; Greenleaf An- 
drews, supt. ; Walter S. Crawford, sec. 
84 Magazine. 

Southern Paving Co. — E. J. Hart. pres. ; 
C. McRae Seljih, sec. ; J. C. Riddle, supt. 
77 Tchoupitoulas. 

The Loan and Pledge Association Accom- 
mod.-iliou Bank. E. B. Benton. ]ircs. .; R 
II. Wood, Cashier. Office, .^t. Charles, cor. 
Perdido. 



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CONGREGAT IONAL CHURCHES. 

ALGIERS CHURCH, ALGIERS— (colVl)— 
Valette, near Eliza. Sabbath services, 11 
a. m. and 7.30 p. m. ; Sunday school, 3 
p. m. Pr.ayer and conference meeting, 
Thmsday evening. 

FIRST CHURCH— Prytania, nr. Calliope. 
Rev..M. W. Reed, pastor. Sabbath ser- 
vices, 11 a. m., and 7.30 p. m. ; Snnday 
school, 9.30 a. m. Prayer and conference 
meeting, Wednesday evening. Industrial 
School and Mite Society, Saturday after- 
noon, in chapel. 

GRETNA CHURCH, GRETNA (col'd)- 
Sabbath servii:es, 11 a. m. and 7.30 p. m. ; 
Sunday school, 9 a. m. Prayer and con- 
ference meeting, Thursday evening. 

HOWARD CHURCH-(col'd)-Spain, nr. St. 
Claude. Sabbath services, 11 a. m. and 
7.30 p. m. ; Sunday school, 3 p. m. Prayer 
and conference meeting, Thursday even- 
ing. 

MORRIS BROWN CHURCH-(col'd)-467 
Villere, 3d dist. Sabbath services, 11 a.m. 
and 7.30 p. m. ; Sunday school, 3 p. m. 
Prayer and conference meeting, Thursday 
evening. I 

ST. ANDREW STREET CHURCH (col'd) 1 
—St. Andrew, cor. Willow. Sabbath ser- | 
vices. 11 a. m. and 7.30 p. m. ; Sunday 
school, 3 p. m. Prayer and conference 
meeting, Thursday evening. 

UNIVERSITY CHURCH— Esplanade, cor. 
Derbigny. Sabbath services, 11 a. m. and 
7.30 p. m. ; Sunday school, 3 p. m. Prayer 
and conference meeting, Thursday even- 
ing. 

ZION CHURCH (col'd)— 123 Johnson. Sab- 
bath services, 11 a. m. and 7.30 p. m. ; Sun- 
day school, 3 p. m. Prayer and conference 
meeting, Thursday evening. 



ST. TRINITY ORTHODOX CHURCH— 
Rev. Father Gregorius Lagias, Dorgenois, 
bet. Hospital and Barracks. Service every 
Sunday at 9.30 a. m. 

TRINITY CHAPEL— Dryades, cor. Eu- 
terpe. Rev. A. Marks, rector. Stuiday 
services, 11 a. m. ; Sunday school, 9 a. m. 

TRINITY CHURCH— Jackson, cor. Coli- 
seum. Rev. S. S. Harris, rector. Siniday 
services, 11 a. m. and 7.30 p. m. ; Sunday 
school, 9 a. m. 

AFRICAN CHURCH— Coliseum, bet. Bor- 
deaux and Valence. 



JEWISH SYNAGOGUES. 

DISPERSED OF JUDA— Rev. H. S. Ja- 
cobs, minister. A. H. D'Mcza, pres. 21S 
Carondelet. Services, Fridays, 5 p. m. and 
Saturdays, 9 a. m. 

GATES OF MERCY— Rev. J. L. Leucht, 
minister. F. Hollander, pres. Rampart, 
bet. Conti and St. Louis. Services, Fri- 
days, 5 p. m. Saturdays; 9 a. m. 

GATES OF PRAYER— Rev. Mr. Moshe, 
Minister. L. BodenheLmer, pres. Jack- 
son, bet. Chippewa and Aiuiunciation. 
Services, Fridays, 5 p. m., Saturdays, 8 
a. m. 

THE RIGHT WAY— B. E. Jacob, minister. 
William Davis, pres. Carondelet, bet. Poy- 
dras and Lafayette. Services, Fridays, 5 
p. m., Saturdays, 8.30 a. m. 

TEMPLE SINAI— Rev. Godheim. Es. Ca- 
rondelet ab. Delord-Woiship 

TEMIME DERECII— Rev. Jacobs. Es. 
Carondelet, bet. Latiiyette. Worship, 6.30 
p. m. Satiu-day. a. m. 



LUTHERAN CHURCHES. 



BETHEL AFRICAN CHURCH— Roman, 

nr. Bienville. 
BETHLEHEM CHURCH (colored)— 357 

Camp 
FIRST STREET CHURCH (colored), Wi- 
nan's Chapel — Dryades, ne. cor. 1st. Sab- 
bath services, 11 a. m. and 7 p. m. Sunday 
school, 9 a. m. Prayer meeting, Thiu-sday 
evening. 
GERMAN CHURCH (colored)— Felicity 
rd., bet. Dryailes and Rampart. Sabbath 
services, 11 a. m. and 7 p. m. Sunday 
school, 9 a. m. Prayer meeting, Thursday 
evening. 
LAHARPE STREET CHURCH (colored) 
— Laharpe, bet. Roman and Prieur. Sab- 
bath services, 11 a. m. and 7 p. m. Sunday 
school, 9 a. m. Prayer meeting, Thuisday 
evening. 
SOULE CHAPEI/ (colored)- M.arais, near 
Bienville. Sabbath services, 11 a. ra. and 
7 p. m. Sunday school, 9 a. m. Prayer 
meeting, Thursday evening. 
PORT STREET CHURCH (col'd)— Green's 
Chapel— 93 Washington. Sabbath sei- 
vices, 11 a. m. and 7 p. m. Sundaj' school, 
9 a. m. Prayer meeting, Thursday even- 
ing. 
SIXTH STREET CHURCH (col'd— Gth, 
near Constance. Rev. Eugene Royal, pas- 
tor. Sabbath services, 11 a. m. and 7 p.m. 
Sund.ay school, 9 a. m. Prayer meeting, 
Thursday evening. 
ST. PAUL'S CHURCH (col'd) 132 Liberty, 

1st dist. 
ST. MARY'S STREET CHURCH (col'd) 
— Chippewa, cor. St. Mary. Sabbath ser- 
vices, 11 a. m. and 7 p. m. Sunday school, 
9 a. m. Prayer meeting, Thursday even- 



EPISCOPAL CHURCHES. 

DIOCESE OF LOUISIANA— Office, 92 
Camp. Right Rev. J. P. B. Wilmer, D.D., 
LLD., bishop ; W. McW. Wright, treas. ; 
Rev. Herman C. Duncan, sec. 

ANNUNCIATION CHURCH— Cor. Race 
and Camp. Rev. John Percival, rector. 
Sunday services, 11 a. m. and 7.30 p. m. ; 
Sunday school, 9 a, m. 

CALVARY CHURCH— Prytania, nr. 6th. 
Rev. D. S. Lewis, rector. Sunday services, 
11 a. m. and 7.30 p. m. Sunday school, 9 
a. m. 

CHRIST CHURCH— Canal, cor. Dauphine. 
Rev. W. S. Leacock, rector ; W. T. Lea- 
cock, pastor. Sunday services 11 a. m. 
and 7.30 p. m. ; Sunday school, 9 a. m. 

EMANUEL CHURCH-Jefterson City. Rev. 
Chas. Morrison, rector. Sunday services, 
11 a. m. ; Sunday school, 9.30 a. m. 

L'EGLISE PROTESTANT FRANCAIS. 

MOUNT OLIVET CHURCH, ALGIERS— 
Rev. C. W. Hilton, rector. Sunday ser- 
vices, 11 . m. and 7 p. m. ; Sunday school, 
9 a. m. 

ST. JOHN'S CHURCH— Third, cor. An- 
nunciation. 

ST. PAUL'S CHURCH— Camp, cor. Gai- 
ennie. Rev. W. F. Adams, rector. Sun- 
day services, 11 a. m. and 7.30 p. m. ; Sun- 
day school, 9 a. m. Daily service at 10 
a. m. 

ST. ANNA'S CHURCH— 177 Esplanade- 
Rev. J. F. Girault, rector. Sunday ser- 
vices, 11 a. m. and 7.30 p. m. ; Sunday 
school, 9 a. m. 



BETHLEHEM CHURCH- 36S Felicity rd. 
Henry Kleinhageu, pastor. Sabbath ser- 
vices, 10 a. m. and 3 p. m. Sunday school, 
9 a. m. 

EVANGELICAL CHURCH (German)— 
Milan, sw. cor. Camp. Frederick Judt, 
pastor. Sabbath services, 10 a. m. and 3 
p. m. Sunday school, 9 a. m. 

FIRST EVANGELICAL CHURCH— Port, 
cor. Burgundy. Christian Moedinger, 
pastor. Sabbath services, 10a. m. and 7 
p. m. 

GERMAN CHURCH— Branch of Zion Ger- 
man Lutheran Church. Chippewa, cor. 
4th. M. Tirmenstein, pastor. 

FIRST GERMAN PROTESTANT 
CHURCH— Clio, bet. St. Charles and Ca- 
rondelet. Rev. H. J. Perpeet, pastor. 

GERMAN PROTESTANT CHURCH— 
Chippewa, cor. Philip. P. L. Heintz, pas- 
tor. Sunday services, 10 a. m. and 7 p.m. 
Sunday school, 9 a. ra. 

GERMAN PROTESTANT CHURCH, 
CARROLLTON— Zirapel, cor. Monroe. 
Rev. T. A. Polster, pastor. 

MADISON STREET CHURCH— Madison, 
bet. Burthe and 3d. CarroUton. 

ST. JOHN EVANGELIST CHURCH— 
Customhouse, cor. Prieur. C. F. Leibe, 
pastor. Sabbath services, 10 a. m. and 3 
p. m. 

ZION GERMAN— Euterpe, bet. Baronne 
and Drvades. M. Tirmenstein. pastor. 



UNION BETHEL CHURCH (col'd)— St. 
Mai-y, cor. St. Thomas. 

WESLEY CHAPEI^(cord)— St. Paid, bet. 
Poydras and Perdido. Rev. James Hay- 
wood, pastor. Sabbath services, 11 a. m. 
and 7 p. m. Sabbath school, 9 a. m. Prayer 
meeting, Thursday evening. 

ZION CONGREGATION (colored)— 123 
Johnson. 1st district. 



METHODIST EP ISCOP AL CHURCHES. 

AFRICAN CHURCH— Valence, cor. Chest- 
nut. Rev. Joseph Gould, pastor. 

AMES CHAPEL— St. Charles, cor. Calliope. 
Rev. J. C. Hartzell, pastor. Sabbath ser- 
vices, 11 a. m. and 7 p. m. Sunday school, 
9 a. m. and 3 p. m. 



METHODIST EPISCOPAL (South.) 

ALGIERS CHURCH— Algiers. Rev. J. 
Gorton Miller, pastor. Sabbath services, 
11 a. m. and 7 p. m. Snnday school, 9 a. m. 
Conference and prayer meetings, AVednes- 
day evening. 

DRYADES STREET CHURCH— Dryades, 
cor. Felicity rd. Rev. John A. G. Rabe, 
pastor. Sabbath services, 11 a. m. and 7.- 
30 p. m. Sunday school, 9 a. m. Prayer 
meeting, Tuesday evening. Preaching, 
Thursday evening. 

FELICITY CHURCH— Felicity rd., near 
Chestnut. Rev. John Matthews, pastor. 
Sabbath services, 11 a.m. and 7.30 p. m. 
Sunday school, 9 a. m. Prayer and Con- 
ference Jleeting, Thursday evening. 

GERMAN CHURCH— Burgundy, bet. 
AVashington av. and Music. Rev. J. B. A. 
Ahrens, pastor. Sabbath services, 11 a.m. 
and 7.30 p. m. Sunday school, 9 a. m. 
Prayer and conference meeting, Monday 
evening. Preaching, Thursday evening. 

CADIZ STREET CHURCH— Cadiz St., cor. 
Coliseum. Rev. P. M. Goodwyn, pastor. 
Sabbath services, 11 a. m. and 7.30 p. m. 
Sunday school, 9 a. m. 

LOUISIANA AVENUE CHURCH— Lou- 
isiana av., cor. Magazine. Rev. James A. 
I\'j% pastor. Sabbath services, 11 a. m. and 
7 p. m. Sunday school, 9 a. m. 



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McGIIEE CHURCH— Ciii-oiKlelct. bet. La- 
fayette ami Giiod. Rev. W. V. Tuilor, 
p:istor. Sabbatli services, 11 a. m. ami 7 
p. m. Siimlay st-hool, 9 a. m. Prayer auci 
coiit'erenee meeting-, Thursilay evening. 

MOREAU STREET CHURCH— Chartres 
(late Moreau) eor. Lafayette. Rev. Thos. 
B. White, pastor. Sabbath services, 11 
a. m. and 7 p. m. Sunday school, 9 a. m. 
Prayer and conference meeting, Friday 
evening. 

SORAPARU CHURCH— Soraparu, corner 
Chippew.a. Rev. J. B. Ahrcns, pastor. 
Sabbath services, 11 a. m. and 7.30 p. m. 
Sunday school, 9 a. m. 

ST. JOHN'S CHAPEL (colored)- Market 
St., Algiers. Kev. J. B. Woods, pastor. 



MISCELLANEOUS. 



CHAPEL OF THE URSUT.IXE CON'- 
VENT— Third District. Mass on Sunday 
at G.30 and S.30 o'clock. 
ST. ANTOINE'S (funeral Chapel)— Ram- 
part, cor. Conti. 
HOLY CROSS (male orphan asylum)— In- 
dependence St., 3d dist. Rev. F. Toohey,. 
C. S. C, pastor. 
HOLY NAME OF MARY— Verret, bet. 

Alix and Eliza. Rev. F. Denis, pastor. 
NOTRE DAME DEBONSECOURS(French) 
Jackson, bet. Laurel and Constance. Rev. 
Father Dellara, C. SS. R. and Rev. F. Fe- 
vere, C. SS., R., pastors. Week day mjiss, 5 
o'clock ; on Sunday, first mass, 7 o'clock, 
and high mass at 10 o'clock ; sermon at 10 
o'clock ; evening sermon at 5.30 o'clock in 
summer and 5 in winter. 
ST. ALPHONSUS'— Constance, bet. St. An- 
drew and .losephine. Rev. J. B. Dutfy, 
pastor. Week day mass, 5.30, G and i 
o'clock; Sundays, (i. S and 10 o'clock; ser- 
mon. 10 o'clock"; vespers, 3 o'clock ; even- 
ing devotion and sermon, 7 o'clock. 
ST. ANN'S CHURCH— St. Philip, bet. 
Roman and Prieur. Rev. Father Tumoinc, 
pastor. Week day mass, 7 o'clock ; Sun- 
day, 7 and 9.30 ; ' sermon, 9.30 ; vespers, 
3.30 o'clock. 
ST. AUGUSTINE'S CHURCH— Hospital, 
cor. Franklin. Rev. Father Joubert, Rev. 
Father Sublieau. pastors. Week day m:uss, 
7 o'clock ; Sund.ay, 7, 8 and 10 ; sermon, 10 
o'clock ; vespers, 4 o clock. 
ST. HENRY, BOULIGNY (German)— Ber- 
lin, bet. Live Oak and Magazine. Rev. J. 
Bogaerts, C. M., pastor. Mass and sermon, 
10 o'clock ; vespers and benediction, 3 
o'clock. 
ST. JOHN THE BAPTIST CHURCH— 
Dryades, bet. Calliope and Clio. Rev. Fa- 
ther Moynihan. pastor. Week day mass, 
7 o'clock ; Sundays, 7, 8.30 and 10 ; ser- 
mon, 10 ; vespers, 4 o'clock. 
ST. JOSEPH'S CHURCH— Gretna. Rev. 
M. H.albedl, pastor. Sunday mass, 7 and 
10 o'clock; sermons in English and Ger- 
man on every alternate Sunday ; vespers 
and benediction, 3.30. 
ST. JOSEPH'S— Common, bet. Marais and 
Villere. Father T. J. Smith, pastor ; Rev. 
C. Boglioli, C. M. ; Rev. D. Leyden, 0. M. ; 
Rev. (J. Beecher, CM.; Mass, week days, 
5.30 and 7 o'clock ; Siniday mass, G, 7.30, 
8.30 and 10; sermon, 8.30 and 10 o'clock; 
vespers and benedi<tion, 7 o'clock. 
ST. LOUIS CATHEDRAI^Chartres, bet. 
St. Ann and St. Peter. Rev. G. Ravmond, 
l)a>tor; Rev. C. Feric, Rev. J. Millet, assts. 
Week dav mass, G ami 7 o'clock ; Sundav. 
C, 7, 8 and 10. Sermon in French, 10 
o'clock ; ve.^pcrs and benediction, 4.30 
o'clock. 



ST. MARY'S CHURCH (Archbishop's 
residence — Chartres, bet. Ursulines and 
Hospital. Verv Rev. G. Ravmond, D. D. 
V. G., Rev. C. benoyelle, Rev. A. Masca- 
roni, chaplains. ^Veek days, 6 o'clock ; 
Sunday, G, 7 and 10 ; sermon, 10 ; vespers, 
5 o'clock. 
ST. MAURICE'S CHURCH— Hancock, cor. 

Royal. Rev. A. Duval, pastor. 
ST. BARTHOLEMEW'S CHURCH— Al- 
giers. Rev. F. Bcllanger, S. M., Rev. F. 
Gautherin, S. M.. Rcv.'M. Chapin. 
ST. MICHAEL'S CHURCH— Ainiunciation 

square. Rev. M. Sheehan, pastor. 
ST. PATRICKS CHURCH— Camp, bet. 
Girod and Julia. Rev. J. Flanagan. Rev. 
P. Allen ami Rev. Thomas Hesliu. past(H-s. 
Week day mass, G.30 and 7 o'clock ; Sim- 
day, 6. 7 and 10 ; sermon, 10 o'clock ; ves- 
pers, 4 o'clock. 
ST. PETER'S CITURCH— Bnrgundj-, bet. 
Mariguy and Mandcville. Rev. Father C. 
Movuihan, pastor. \Veek day mass at 0.30 
o'clock; Sunday, 7, 8.30 aud"lO; sermon, 
10 o'clock ; vespers, 4. 
ST. ROSE DE LIMA CHURCH— Bayou, 
bet. Dorgenois and Bro.ad. Rev. F. Mit^ 
telbron, iiastor. ^V■eek day mass, 7 o'clock ; 
Sunday 7.30 and 10; sermon, 10 o'clock; 
vespers, 4 o'clock. 
ST. TERESA'S CHURCH— Er.ato, cor. 
Camp. Rev. Thos. J. Kenney. piistor. 
Mass, Sunday, 6, 7.30 and 10 o'clock; ser- 
mon 10 o'clock ; vespers and benediction, 
4 p. m. 
ST. TRINITY CHURCH (German)— St. 
Ferdinand, bet. Dauphin and Royal. Rev. 
Mr. Thevis, Rev. J. Koergerl, Rev. M. 
Halbedl. Week day mass, 7 o'clock ; Sun- 
day, 7 and 10 ; sermon, 10 o'clock ; vespers, 
3 o'clock. 
ST. VINCENT DEPAUT-^Dauphine. bet. 
Montegut and Clouet. Rev. K. Foltier, 
Rev. F. Heslin. Week day mass, 7 o'clock ; 
Sunday, 7 and 10; sermon, 10 o'clock; one 
Sunday in French and one Sunday in 
English ; vespers, 4.30 o'clock. 
ST .JAMES (African) M. E. Church. I. R. 
V. Thomas, jiastor. Roman, bet. Custom- 
house and Bienville. 



ilarkham, pastor. Sunday services. 11 
a.m. Sunday school. 9 :i. m. ; prayer 
meeting. AV'edncsday evening. Pastor re- 
sides 179 Constance. 

PRYTANIA STREET PRESBYTERIAN 
CHURCH-Prytania, cor. Josephine. Rev. 
B. Q. Mallaid, pastor. Sunday servic(!S, 
11 a. m. and 7 p. m. Sund.iy school, 9.15 
a. m. ; prayer meeting, Friday at 7 p. m. 
Pastor's resilience, 15 Coliseum. 

SECOND GERMAN PRESBYTERIAN 
CHURCH— St. Bernard, cor. Claiborne. 
Rev. F. O. Koelle. jiastor. 

T H A L I A STREET PRESBYTERIAN 
CHURCH— Thalia, cor. Franklin. Rev. 
AVilliam Flyun, pastor. .Sunday services, 
11 a. m. and 7.30 p. m. Sunday school. 9 
a. m. Prayer meeting, Wednesday even- 
ing, 7.30 p.m. Seats'frce. Pastor's resi- 
dence, 298 Franklin. 

THIRD PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH— 
Washington Square. Rev. H. JL Smith, 
pastor. Sunday services, 11 a. m. and 7 
p. m. Sunday school. 9 a. m. ; prayer 
meeting. Thursdaj', 7 p. m. Pastor resides 
533 Chartres St. 

SWEDENBORGIAN. 

NEW JERUSALEM CHURCH— Glendy 
Burke, Reader. Melpomene, cor. Camp. 

UNITARIAN CHURCHES. 

CHURCH OF THE MESSIAH— St. Charles, 

cor. Julia. Rev. , pastor. Sabbath 

services, 11 a. m. and 7.30 p. m. Sunday 
school, 9 a. m. 



CITY HALL— Sec City Government. 

CITY W.VTER WORKS-Tchoupitdulas. 
Ricliard Bldg. and ollice 32 Dryades. 



PRESBYTERIAN CHURCHES. 

AFRICAN CHURCH— 405 Villere, 3d dis- 
trict. Rev. William Brown, pastoi'. 

C A R R O L L T O N PRESBYTERIAN 
CHURCH— Carrolton. Sunday services, 
preaching, 4 p. m. Sunday school, 3 p. m. 

FIRST GERMAN PRESBYTERIAN 
CHURCH— First, near Laurel. Rev. John 
Hollander, pastor. Sunday services, at 11 
a. m. and 7.30 p. m. Sunday schoo at 9.301 
a. m. 

FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH— La- 
favette Square. Rev. B. M. Palmer, pas- 
tor. Sunday services at 11 a. m. ami 7.30 
]). m. Sunday school at 9 a. m. ; i)rayer 
meeting, Wednesday at 7 p. m. P;istor re- 
sides G3 Prytania. 

FOURTH PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH— 
Liberty, nr. Gasquet. Rev. A. F. Dick- 
son, pastor. Sunday services at 11 a. m. 
and 7.30 p. m. Sunday school, 9.30 a. m. 
Prayer meeting, Thursday evening. Pas- 
tor's residence, . 

JEFFERSON CITY PRESBYTERIAN 
CHURCH— SS. Camji. bet. Valence and 
Cadiz. Rev. Heuiamiu Wayne, pastor. 
Sundav services al 11 a. ni. and 7.30 p. m. ; 
Siniday school at 9.31) a. ni. Pastor's resi- 
dence. Coliseum, cor. Napoleon. 
L A F A Y E T T E PKKSHYTERIAN 
CHURCH— Magazine, nr. Jackson. T. It. 



COLLEGES. 

BLACKMAN'SCOMMERCIALCOLLEGE 
— 78 Camp St.. .1. W. Blaikniiin. Proprietor. 
DFATAL COLLEGi:— (i7 Carondclct. 
DOLBKirs COMMERCIAL COLLEGE— 

l"(iini(lcil 1S32. Ili4 A U'l; Canal >t. 
LA (■Ol.LKGE — J. Choi)i)in, snpt. 274 

Burgundy. 
JESUIT COLLEGE— Rev. F. Ganticlct. S. 

J., pres. ; Rev. F. Lesi)es, S. J., vice-pres. ; 

Rev. F. Butler, S. J., treas. Baroinie, bet. 

Canal and Common sts. 
PEOPLE'S COMMERCIAL COLLEGE— 

A. T. Selover, prin, 114 Caromlelet. 
SOULE'S COMMERCIAL COLLEGE— 

Camp, sw. cor. Common. 
ST. MARY'S COMMERCIAL COLLEGE— 

Bro. Tluirlan, prin. Constance, ne. cor. 

Poyfarie. 
ST. JI.VRY'S COLLEGE— Constance, cor. 

Poyfarre st. 
CONVENT OF MERCY— Josephine, cor. 

Constance. 
MT. CARMEL CONVENT— Sister Julia 

Theresa, prin., 200 Hospital. 
ST. JOSEPH CONVENT— Sister Stephene, 

superior. St. Phili]). cor. Galvez. 
ST. MARY'S DOMINICAN CONVENT— 

Sister ^lary, mother prioress. Dryades, 

cor. Calliiijic Branch ss, St. Charles, bet. 

Broadway and Upper Line. 
SUSANK — lohu K. Dutillet, supt. Orleans. 

bet. Liberty and Marais. 
URsrLlNKCONVF.NT— Sister Scrapliiiie. 

superior. Peter.--, bet. Treasure ami Good- 
will. 



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BOARD OF H EALTH. 
OFFICE, 159 CANAL. 

Dr. C. B. White, president ; Dr. S. C. Rus- 
sell, sec. iiiul trcits.; Joliii S. Walton, Dr. 
A. W. Smytlie. H. D. Baldwin, W. H. 
Hire, M.D., B. Maas. M.D., M. P. Avila, 
M.D., J. S. Clarlv, M.D. 

Sanitary Inspectors — Dr. J. S. Clark, 1st 
dist. ottlce, Delord, cor. St. Charles ; Dr. 
F. B. Albers, 2d dist. otticc, 29 Canal ; 
A. W. Pcrrv. 8d dist. ollice, 409 Cliartres; 
J. A. Matliieu, -Ith dist. ottice, 7oU Maj^a- 
zine ; Di-. C. 1'. Ames, h\h dist. olHce, 
I'atrerson. in-. I.averuiic ; Dr. '1'. I). Wor- 
rall, Gth dist. olHce, Maj^azine, cor. Berlin. 



Commissioners of the Consolidated 
Debt of New Orleans. 

ROOM. CITY HALL. 
Mayor B. F. Flanders, pres. ex.ofticio ; Al- 
fred Shaw and John S. \Valton, corns. 



CORONERS. 



Patrick Creao:h, 1st, 4th. 5th and Gth dists., 
ottice. St. Charles, cor. Lafayette. 

J. F. J.ackson, M.D., 2d and 3d dists., oflice, 
45 St. Peter. 



METROPOLITAN POLICE. 

Board of Commissioners — 

, pres. ex-otlicio ; J. A. Ranyall, 

treas.; W. Buker, W. .M. Robinson. Thos. 
Isabelle and G. A. Baldcy, conis ; F. E. 
Adams, chief clerk. Central Department, 
oor. (.:iUondelet and Girod ; A. S, Badj;er. 
sn])t., olBce, cor. Carondelet and Girod 
sts. 

First Precinct — Bonnded by Canal St., De- 
lord. New Canal and Broad. Station 
house, cor. St. Charles and Lafayette sts., 
J. G. Schiiber. captain. 

Second Precinct — Bounded by Delord st.*. 
Felicity road. Land Boundaries of Har- 
bor I'rect. and Broad st. Station h.Mise, 
cor. Terpsichore and Chippewa sts., Boyd 
Robinson, captain. 

Third Precinct — Bonnded by Canal St., Es- 
planade, Rampart and Land Boundaries 
of Harbor PrecC. Station house, Jackson 
square, iir. the Cathedral, Wm. McCaiiu, 
captain. 

Fourth Precinct — Bounded by Canal, Ram- 
part, Esplanade and Broad sts. Station 
house, cor. Marais and Orleans sts., Oc- 
tave Rey, captain. 

Fifth Precinct — Bounded by Esplanade St., 
river, lower limits and rear of city. Sta- 
tion house, Elysian Fields, nr. Greatman. 
Sub-precinct, Parish of St. Bernard, Eu- 
gene Rapp, captain. 

Sixth Precinct — Bounded by Felicity road, 
river, and upper limits of city to Broad 
St. Station house. Rousseau, nr. Jackson 
St., R. B. Edgeworth, captain. 

Sei'enth Precinct — Station house. City Hall, 
cor. Magazine and Berlin sts. Sub-pre- 
cinct, city of Carrollton and left bank of 
Parish of Jeflerson, D. C. Woodrufl', cap- 
tain. 

Elyhth Precinct — Fifth dist., with Gretna .ts 
Sub-precinct. Station house in Court 
House. H. Fuentes, sergeant. 



HARBOR PRECINCT. 

OFFICE, HEAD OF CANAL STREET. 
'J'homas Flanagan, captain. 



SUBURBAN SUB-PRECINCT. 

STATION, COMMON .STREET, OPP. 

CAR STABLE. 
Philip Taj'lor, sergeant. 



JUSTICE OF THE PEACE COURTS. 
FIRST JUSTICE COURT. 

Office, 150 Julia st. . justice ; Daniel 

Crowley, consUible ; B. F. Sailler, clerk. 

SECOND JUSTICE COURT. 

Ottice. 2G Commercial bl. and 82 St. Charles. 

. Justice; , constable; F. M. 

Mohrmann, clerk. 

THIRD JUSTICE COURT. 

Office, 20 Exchange pi. 

, constable ; 

, clerk. 

FOURTH DISTRICT COURT. 

Ottice, 3 and 5 Frenclimen. , justice; 

, constable. 

FIFTH JUSTICE COURT. 

Office, Villere, bet. Segnin and Bartholo- 
mew, 5th dist. , justice ; , 

const;ible. 

SIXTH JU.STICE COURT. 

Office, 570 Magazine. , j ustice ; , 

constable. 

SEVENTH JUSTICE COURT. 

, justice ; S. V. Stalzberg, constable. 

EIGHTH JUSTICE COURT. 
, justice ; , constable. 



BOUNDARIES OF WARDS. 

First Ward — From Felicity st. to Thalia. 

Second Ward — From Thalia st. to Julia. 

Third Ward — From Julia st. to Canal. 

Fourth Waid — From Canal St. to St. Louis. 

Fifth Ward— From St. Louis st. to St. Philip. 

Sixth Ward — From St. Philip st. to Esplan- 
ade. 

Seventh Ward — From Esplanade st. to Ely- 
.suin Fields. 

Eio^hth Ward— From Elysian Fields st. to 
Lafayette av. 

Ninth Ward — From Lafiiyette avenue to 
lower limits of the city. 

Tenth Ward— From Felicity st. to First. 

Eleventh Ward — From First to Toledano. 

Twelfth Ward — From Toledano st. to Napo- 
leon av. 

Thirteenth Ward — From Napoleon av. to 
Upper Line. 

Fourteenth Ward — From Upper Line st. to 
Lower Line. 

Fifteenth Ward— All of the Fifth Dist. 



FIRE ALARM AND POLICE TELEGRAPH. 

ROOM 3, CITY HALL. 

Superintendent, S. Weeks ; Assistant-Super- 
intendent, Charles A. Adams ; Operator, 
Fred; Wclschans ; Operator, H. Strouder; 
Operator. T. J. Rogers, Lineman, George 
W. Packard. Assistjuit Lineman, Chus. 
Penot. 

N. O. FIRE ALARM STATION BOXES. 

Fire District No. 1 — Toi.kdano to 
Wasiiinoton St. — Alarm from this Dis- 
trict is One Blow on the bells, repeated 
twenty times, with an interval of fifteen se- 
conds between each blow. 



BO.XES. 

No. 1. Corner Harmony and Levee sts. 

Xo. 2. Corner Washington and Chippewa 

sts. 
No. 3. Ninth Street Market. 
No. 4. Corner Apollo and Eighth sts., R. R. 

Depot. 
No. 5. Seventh, corner Laurel. 
No. G. Sixth, corner Prytania. 
No. 7. Sixth, corner St. Denis. 

FiRK District No. 2 — Washington St. 
to Fi'.i.icitv Road. — Alarm is Two Blows, 
repeated fifteen times, with an interval ol 
fifteen seconds between each alarm. 
No. I. Engine House No. 22. 
No. 2. Corner Roiissoan and St. Marv's. 
No. 3. Lafayette llooU and Ladder No. 2. 
Xo. 4. Corner Constance anil First strs. 
No. 5. Corner .Maga/.ine and St. .Andiew. 
Xo, G. Engine House, No. 23 Wiushingtou 

St. 

No. 7. Cornel Diyades and Fii-st sts. 
Xo. 8. Corner Dryades and St. Andrew. 
No. 9. Keller Market. 
No. 10. St. Patrick, corner Second st. 
No, 11. Chestnut, corner Second st. ] 

Fire District No. .3 — Fki.icitv Road 
to Thalia .St.— Alarm is Thicc Blows, re- 
peat thirteen times, with an uiterval of Hf- 
teen seconds between each alarm. 
No, 1. Corner Market and Levee sts. 
No. 2. Corner Henderson and Levee sts. 
No. 3. Engine House, No. 12 Tchoupitoulas 

St. 

No. 4. Engine House, No. 1 Hunter st. 

No. 5. Corner Market and Chippewa sts. 

No. G. Robin st. Police Station. 

No. 7. Corner Melpomene and Camp sts. 

No. S. Horse Station, Dryades st. 

Xo. 9. Engine House, No. 20 Thalia st. 

No. 10. Terpsichore, coiner Franklhi st. 

No. 11. Race, corner Annunciation st. 

FiKE District No. 4 — Tiiai.ia to Juma 
St. — Alarm is Four Blows, repeated ten 
times, with an interval of fifteen sccouds be- 
tween eaih alarm. 

Xo. 1. Corner Gaiennie and New Levee st. 
No. 2. Engine House, Xo. 0, St. Joseph st. 
Xo. 3. Corner Constance and Erato st. 
Xo. 4. Corner Camp and St. Joseph st. 
No. 5. Engine House, No. 18 Calliope st. 
No. G. Corner New Biisin and Triton Walk. 
No. 7. Corner Calliope and Freret, Pass- 
man's Press. 
No. S. Corner Magnolia and Erato, Lurges' 

Foundry. 
No. 9. Liberty, corner Erato st. 

Fire District No. 5— Julia to Canal 
St. — Alarm is Five Blows, repeated nijie 
times, with an interval of fifteen seconds be- 
tween each alarm. 
No. 1. Corner Julia and Levee sts. 
No. 3. Corner Canal and Levee sts. 
No. 4. Corner Magazine and Girod sts. 
No. 5. Engine House, No. 2, Tchoupitoulas 

St. 

No. G. Corner Canal and Camp sts. 

No. 7. Engine House, Xo. 5, and City Hall. 

Xo. 8. Engine House, Xo. 13 Pcrdido st. 

No. 9. Corner Carondelet and Common. 

Xo. 10. Rampait, corner Canal St. 

No. 11. Poydras, near Rampart. 

No. 12. Engine House, Xo. 14 Common St. 

No. 13. Work House, Giroil st. 

No. 14, Common and Rocheblave, R. R, 

Depot. 
No. 15. Claiborne, cor. Poi'di^as st. 

P'ire District No. 6 — Canai. to St. 
Pkiku Sr. — .\larm is Six Blows, repeated 
seven times, with an interval of twenty se- 
conds between each alarm. 
Xo. 1. Corner Bienville and Old Levee sts. 
Xo. 2. Corner St. Louis and Royal sts. 
No. 3. Engine House, No. 7 Dauphine st. 



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Xo. 4, Coiner Buijriuuly antl Toulouse sts. 
Xo. 5. Pelicjvii Hook anil Ladder, No. 4 

Biisin St. 
No. G. Corner Canal and Robertson sts. 

Wood's Press. 
No. 7. Bienville, corner Johnson st. 
No. S. Derbigny, corner Conti. 

Fire Distkict No. 7— St. Petkr to 
EsiM.ANADE St. — .'Vlann is Seven Blows, re- 
peated seven times, with an interval of twen- 
ty seconds between each alarm. 
No. 1. Corner Old Levee and St. Philip. 
No. 2. Police Station, Jackson square. 
No. S. Corner Hospital and Uauphine sts. 
No. 4. Engine House, No. 10 Uumaine St. 
No. 5. Corner Trcrae and Esplanade sts. 
No. 6. Treme Market ami Parish Prison. 
No. 7. Engine House, No. 21 Clairborne. 
No. S. Corner Bayou road and Clairljorne. 
No. 9. Engine House, No. 3 Bayou road. 
No. 10. St. Aim, corner Miro St. 
No. 11. Bayou Bridge. 

Fire District No. 8 — Esplanade to 
St. Fekuinanii St. — Alarm is Eight Blows, 
repeated six times, with an interval of twen- 
ty seconds betw een each alarm. 
No. 1. House of Hook and Ladder No. 3. 
No. "2. Engine House, No. 9 Esplanade st. 
No. 3. Engine House, No. 8 Decatur St. 
No. 4. Pohce St.ition, Elysian Fields, 
No. 5. Bourbon and Esplanade. 
No. U. St. (;laude and St. Antouie. 
No. 7. St. Claude and Elysian Fields. 
No. S. Clairborne and St. Bernard. 
No. 9. Laharpe and White K. K. Depot. 
No. 10. Bagatelle, corner Koman. 
No. 11. Mandeville, corner Clairborne. 
No. 12. Port, corner L'rqiihart. 

Fire District No. 9 — St. Ferdinand 
St. to the Barracks. — Alarm is Nine 
Blows, repeated six times, with an interval 
of twenty seconds between each alarm. 
No. 1, Cotton Piess antl Levee, 
No. 2. W:i>hington Market. 
No. 4. Engine House, No. 24 Dauphine St., 

nr. Port. 
No. 5, Corner Lidependence and Dauphine 

sts. 

A General Alarm sounded after a Dis- 
trict Alarm will be indicated by twenty 
successive blows upon the bells. 

An adihtional District alarm will be in- 
dicated by striking upon the bells three 
ROUNDS of the number of the District, 

The Sicnal for additional and gen- 
eral alarm can only be given by the Chief 
Engineer or his assispants. 



FIRE DEPARTMENT. 

Chief Engineer, Thomas O'Connor, 120 
Carondelpt st. 

Assistant Engineer, Firet District, John 
Connors, of No. 14. 

Assistant Engineer, Second District, P. 
Lacour. 

Assistant Engineer, Third District, P.at^ 
rick Swan, of Hook and Ladder No, 3. 

Assistant Engineer, Fourth District, Ad.am 
Fiery, 

The Department consists of fifteen Steam 
Engines, titteen Hose Cariiages, live Hand 
En<;ines, four Hook and Ladder Trucks, all 
with horses an<l liarnoss complete. 

The companies are located as follows: 

First District— 7 Steam Eiii;incs. 3 Hand 
Engines. 1 Hook and Ladder Truck. 

Second Distiict — 3 Steam Engines, 1 Hand 
Engine, 1 Hook and Ladder Truck. 

Third District— 3 Steam Eniiincs. 1 Hand 
Engine. 1 Hook and Ladder rriick. 

Fourth District — 2 Steam Engines, 1 Hook 
and Ladder Truck, 



FIRST DISTRICT, 

Volunteer. No. 1 (steam), es. Hunter, be- 
tween Peters and Tchonpitoidas sts. 

RHssissippi, No, 2 (steam), 45 Tchoupitou- 
las st, 

Columbi.i, No. 5 (hand), Girod, bet. St. 
Charles and Carondelet sts. 

Mechanics, No, 6 (hand), St. Joseph, cor. 
Commerce st, 

Irad Ferry, No, 12 (steam), ss. Common, 
bet. Race and Orange sts. 

Perseverance, No. 13 (hand), 12 Perdido 

St. 

Philadelphia, No. 14 (steam), ss. Common, 
bet. Liberty and Howard sts. 

Jackson, No. IS (steam). Calliope, bet. St. 
Charles and Carondelet sts. 

Washington, No. 20 (steam), Thalia, bet. 
Baionue and Dryades sts. 

American Hook and Ladder Company, 
No. 2. Girod, bet. St. Charles and Caronde- 
let sts. 

Louisiana Hose (steam), Carondelet, cor. 
Perdido st, 

SECOND DISTRICT, 

Vigilant, No, 3 (steam). Bayou road, cor, 
Galvez st. 

Eagle, No, 7 (steam), ns, Dauphine, bet. 
Customhouse and Bienville sts, 

Louisiana, No, 10 (steam), Dumaine, bet. 
Rampart and St. Claude sts. 

Orleans. No, 21 (hand), St, Peter, ne, cor, 
Claiborne st. 

Pelican Hook and Ladder, No. 4, Conti, 
ne, cor. Basin st, 

THIRD DISTRICT, 

Milneburg, No. 1 (hand). Town of Milne- 
burg. 

Phoenix. No. S (steam), ss, Decatur, bet. 
Marigny and Mandeville sts. 

■ Creole, No. 9 (steam). Esplanade, cor. De- 
catur st. 

Crescent. No. 24 (steam), Dauphine, bet. 
Post a!id Ferdinand sts. 

Hope Hook and Ladder, No. 3, Peters, se. 
cor. Marigny st. 

FOURTH DISTRICT. 

Jefferson, No. 22 (steam), 783 Tchoupitou- 
las St. 

Chalmette, No. 22 (steam), Washington 
av., cor. Camp st. 

Lafayette Hook and Ladder, No. 1, Jack- 
son, bet. Rousseau and Fulton sts, 

FIFTH DISTRICT. 

Pelican Engine Co. No. 1, Peter, cor. Ver- 
ret St. 

Brooklyn Engine Co. No. 2, Boiuiy. bet. 
Delaroiide and Peter sts. 

Washington Hook and Ladder Co. No. 1, 
Alix, cor. Verret st. 



Mayor's OfTice. 

CITY HALL, ROOM 0. 
L. A. Wiltz, Mayor; E. W. Halsey, secre- 
t;iiy ; E. L. Howcr, clerk, 

Administralor of Accounts, 

.lolin Calliouii. Aniinistrator, 

Administrator of Finance, 



Administrator of Water Works and 
Public Buildings, 

OFFICE, ROOM 23. CITY HALL, - 

C. Fitzenreiter, Administrator; 

general clerk. 

Administrator of Police. 

ROOM 12, CITY HALL, 

Robert Brewster, Administrator, 

Administrator of Commerce. 

ROOM 14. CITY HALL. 
B. M. TurnbuU, Administrator, 

Administrator of Assessments. 

H. F. Sturcken, Administrator. 

Administrator of Improvements, 

OFFICE. ROOM 10. FIRST STOKY. 
James Lewis, Administrator ; , secj-e- 



tary. 



Geo. S, 
city attorney 



City Attorney's Office. 

CITY HALL. ROOM 21. 
Lacej', Attorney ; 



clerk. 

Surveyor's Department. 

CITY HALL, ROOM 19. 

Wm. Bell, city surveyor; . assist;mt 

city surveyor ; , chief clerk. 

The City Hall. 

On St. Charles street, fronting Lafayette 
square, is where the city business is trans- 
acted. The following shows the location ol 
the various offices in the building ; 

BASEMENT, 

Room 1, Administrator of Accounts, 
" 2, Administrator of Finances, 
. " 3, Fire Alarm Telegraph. 

FIRST STORY'. 

Room 9, Mayor's office. 
10, Citv Librarv, 
" 11, MaVor'sCkTks, 
" 12, .Administrator of Police, 
" 14, Adinniistrator ot Commerce. 
" 15, .\dmiiiistrator of Assessiucjits, 
" IG, Administrator ol Improvements, 

SECOND STORY. 

Room 17, Lyceum Hall, 
" IS. Council Chamber. 
" 11), Citv Surveyor, 
" 20, School Uoaid, 
•' 2i, Cuv .\ttoriiev. 
" 23. I)cj>:iitniciil 'of Water Woik^ and 
I'ubiic UurKs, 

THIRD STORY, 
Room 28, City Archives, 



Louis ,Schneider, 
chief clerk ; 



.\diniinstrator ; 
— , bookkeeper. 



INSURANCE COMPANIES, 
Crescent Mutual Insurance Company, 

Camp, cor. Commercial pi, 'I'lios, A, Adams, 
prcs. ; ."^amucl B, Newman, vice-pres, ; 
llcnrv V, Oi;ilpii, sec. Trustees- C. T, 
Hnddcckc, Samuel B, Newman, .lohii 
PlicMps. S. II. Kcuucdv. P. II. l-dlev. A. G. 
OI)cr. A. Thompson. J. J. (lariard. E. H. 
Sunnncrs, B. Xewg:is<. P. N. Strong, Vic- 
tor Jleyer. Jo.s. Bowling. 



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Commercial Insurance Company. 

15 Camp St. Josepli H. Oglesby, pies.; 
John T. Hardie, vice-pres. ; Walter Hiiu- 
tiiigtoii, sec. DireL'tois — J. H. Oglesby, 
Edward A. Yorke, E. H. Fahthild, J. S. 
(Jopes. P. Poursiiie, J. N. Beadles, J. L. 
Diiiiiiica, Thomiis Smith, Joseph West, 
Julius Weis, B. Newgass, R. L. Adams. T. 
J. ML-Millan, William Flash, George R. 
Prestou. E. H. Wilson, J. M. Witherspoon, 
J. J. Irby, Joseph O'Brieu, W. T. Blake- 
more. John T. llardie. E. Kirkpatrick, J. 
G. Purham, and (Jharles Pleasants. 

Cosmopolitan Mutual Aid Lire Insurance 
Association. 

.50 Camp. A. Marks, pres. ; M. L. Block, 
see. 

Delta Insurance Company. 

Common, cor. Carondelet. E. Ganucheau. 
pres. ; A. Baldwin, vice-pres. ; L. W, 
Baquie, sec. Directors— A. Baldwin, G. 
P. Blancand, A. Eimer Brader, O. Bercier, 
A. Tertrou, B. Huttt, R. F. Theurer. SI. A. 
de Lazardi, C. J. Leeds, F. Laborde. A. 
H. D'Meza, Emile Dupre. Jno. Brunaso, 

D. Bouligny, A. Palacio, T. M. Simmons, 

E. Gaiuicheau, L. H. Gardner, J. Lapene. 
O. Hopkins. C. H Mouton, VV. B. Conger, 
E. Bordelois, T. L. Airey, Jos. Aleix. 

Factors' and Traders' Insurance 
Company. 

No. 39 Carondelet st. Harmon Doane, 
pres. ; Moses Greenwood, vice-pres. ; Ed- 
ward A. Palfrey, sec. Trustees — Moses 
Greenwood, VV. A. Johnson, John 1. 
Noble, John Chafte, Maishall J. Smith, 
Richard Milliken, Samuel E. Moore, J. 
J. Warren. Simon Bloch, R. T. Buckner. 
Perry Mugent, Samuel Friedlander, H. 
Frellisen, W. S. Pike, H. W. Farley, A. 
A. Yates, John 1. Ailams, Isaac Scherck. 
R. M. Walmsley, Michael Musson, William 
Morrisson, John Carroll, A. Brittiii, and 
J. T. Pace. 

Germania Insurance Company, of New 
Orleans. 

124 Common st. D. Michel, pres. ; Freder- 
ick Del Bondio. vice-pres. ; E. Maier, sec. 
Directors — Frederick Del Bondio, D. 
Mii'uM, A. Eimer Bader, Thomas Schorr. 
A .list Koenig, A. Marks, H. F. Klump, 
J. J. Weckerling, J. F. Krantz, George 
Merz, S. Friedlander, W. Goldenbow, F. 
M. Zie^ler, P. W. Dielmann, Philip D. 
Meyer, N. A. Baumgarden, R. F. Theurer. 
T. Hassinger, A. Gassie., Louis Redor, G. 
H. Braughn, M. Stern, Louis Grunewald, 
H. Oerthling. 

Great Western Mutual Insurance Com- 
pany. 

2G Carondelet st. West Steever, pres. ; J. 
Mitchell, sec. pro tem. Trustees — W. A. 
Shropshire, Z. Foley, Jas. J. Stewart, R. 
Bleakley, Thomas M. Scott, F. Eugster, 
W. S. Wren, West Steever, L R. Hastings, 
Jno. G. Fleming, J. F. Spearing, Wm. 
Golding, W. H. Buck, Sam'l. Statford, A. 
Thomas, A. Wheless, Geo. T. Converse. 

Home Mutual Insurance Company of 
New Orleans. 

Office, No. 78 Camp st. Alfred Moulton. 
pres. ; William N. Perkins, vice-pres.; A 
W. Hunter, sec. Trustees — Archie Woo<Is, 
Bobert Hare, B. M. Horrell, William 



Chambers, A. Moulton, A. H. May, John 
T. Moore, John C. Rogers, W. M. Perkin>. 
M. C. RaudaU, WilUam F. Tutt, Adolph 
Meyer. 

Hope Insurance Company of New 
Orleans. 

Office, No. 21 Camp st. Incorporated in 
1S.'>7. H. Peychaud, pres. ; Jno. I. Ad,ams, 
vice-pres. ; Lewis Barnett, sec. ; Johnson 
& Denis, attorneys. Diiectors — John I. 
Adams, M. L. Navra, F. A. Ducros, F. E. 
Bernard, J. C. Denis, William Alexander 
Gordon, T. N. Blake, P. Malochee, H. 
Peychaud. 

Lafayette Fire Insurance Company. 

Magazine, sw. cor. St. Andrew. Kaspar 
Auch, pres. ; Louis Mathis, sec. 

Louisiana Branch of the Mound City 
Life Insurance Company of St. Louis. 

33 Carondelet. F. H. Hatch, pres. ; E. T. 
Merrick, vice-pres. ; B. B. Simmes, sec. 
Directors — Gov. C. H. Mouton, Robt. 
Haie, T. Fitzwilliam, L. Alfred Wiltz, E. 
T. Merrick, James Jackson, F. H. Hatch, 
Octave Voorhies, B. B. Simmes. 

Hibernia Insurance Company of New 
Orleans. 

Office, No. 37 Camp st. Hugh McCloskey, 
pres. ; John Henderson, vice-pres.; Thos. 
F. Bragg, sec. Directors — Hugh Mc- 
Closkey, Patrick Irwin, Robert Carey, 
Edward Conery, John T. Gibbons, Wm. 
Conway, Thos. Markey, Thos. King, R. 
M. O'Brien, Michael McQuade, David 
Jackson, Thos. Dunne, Edwartl Sweeney, 
William Hart, John Lockhart, Michael 
Dntt'y, John Henderson, Thos. Gilmore, 
Thos C. Walsh, John McCattiey, Jno. 
Farrell, Thos. McKenna, Nicholas Burke. 
Jno. T. Moore, jr., Thos. Fitzwilliam, Ed- 
ward Burke, James D. Martin, Jno. Ilen- 
derson, jr., E. B. Briggs, Patrick Dwyer, 
Jno. G. Ryan. 

Louisiana Equitable Life Ins. Co. of 
New Orleans. 

Office, Carondelet, ne. cor. Gravier, New- 
Orleans. Jas. H. Low, pres. ; J. W. 
Stone, vice-pres. ; Wm. Henderson, sec. ; 
W. C. Robins, manager of agencies. Direc- 
tors — E. A. Tyler, C. H. Slocomb, Geo. 

A. Fosdick, J. W. Stone, A. Thomson, D. 

B. Penn, Marshall J. Smith. Edward Rig- 
ney, W. B. Schmidt, Alexander Marks, 
E. B. Briggs and B. T. Walshe. Medical 
Examiuers — B. H. Moss, Henry Smith. 
Sam. Choppin, and J. H. Lewis ; Y. R. 
Lemonier, physician ; G. A. Breaux, at- 
torney. 

Louisiana Mutual Insurance Company. 

Office, 120 Common street. Charles Brig^, 
pies. ; Antoine Carriere, vice-pres. ; J. P. 
Roux, sec. Directors — Charles Brig^. 
Antoine Carriere, George A. Fosdick, R. 
Brugier, Chas. Lafltte, P. Ander-son, A. 
Fredrichs, George W. Dunbar, E. F. Stock- 
meyer, Geo. W. Hinson, Arch'd Mont- 
gomery, Henry J. Vose, E. Marqueze, 
Chas. Weishaar, A. R. Montgomery, A. 
Lecourt, Frank Williams. Thomas Byrne, 
John Thornhill, Jno. S. Wallis, George 
Foster, Andrew Stewart, L. B. Pothier, 
R. Piaggio, Budolph Sieg, H. F. Given. 
W. C. Black, Geo. C. Garner, Thomjis H. 
Hunt, Chn. Houold, O. Carriere, K. S. 
Howard. 



Mechanics' and Traders' Insurance 
Company. 

Office, 14 Carondelet street. Lloyd R. Cole- 
man, pres. ; James A. White, sec. Trus- 
tees — C. W. Allen, A. J. Aiken, J, A. 
Braselman, W. T. Blakemore, A. Eimer 
Bader, I. Bloom, E. B. Briggs, T. B. Bod- • 
ley, John D. Cobb, George W. Church, J. 
E. Campbell, Benjamin Gerson, C. A. 

. Green, I. L. Haas, Jno. N. Harrison, T. 
H. Hunt, J. A. Lane, Geo. Wm. Logan, 
Robert L. Moore, John Myers, Wm. 
Moran, R. C. Oglosby, G. W. Sentell. J. 
P. Smith, W. H. Sutton, W. B. Thomp.son, 
J. P. Todd, Frederick Wing, Louis A. 
Wiltz, T. S. Waterman. 

Merchants' Mutual Insurance Com- 
pany of New Orleans. 

104 Canal street. Paul Fourchy, pros. ; G. 
W. Nott, sec. Directors — P. Fourchv. 
D. D. McCoard, L. F. Generes, S. Z. Reff. 
D. A. Chatt'raix, P. Maspero, M. Puig. 
P. S. Wiltz, Joseph Hoy, Charles Latitte. 
J. J. Fernandez. 

Mutual Aid and Benevolent Life Insur- 
ance Association of Louisiana. 

Officers — John Davidson, pres.; I. N. 
Marks, vice-pres. ; R. W. Young, sec. ; L. 
A. Fournier, treas. Directors — John 
Davidson, I. N. Marks, E. F. Schmidt, 
Wm. Cooper, L. H. Joseph, R. E. Revers, 
Anthony Sambola, John C. Siiinot, R. N. 
Ogden, I. Schenk, J. Hassinger, W. B. 
Sclimidt, J. D. Hill, W. H. Thomas, F. 
Dolhoude, C. A. Eager, W. C. Kennedy, 
Thos. McKenna, Jo.seph O'Brien. Medi- 
cal Examiner — Alex. H.art. Office, 120 
Carondelet St., Davidson's row. 

The Economy Mutual Aid Association 
of New Orleans. 

Louis Schneider, pres. ; J. B. Guthrie, sec. 
110 Gravier. 

New Orleans Mutual Insurance Asso- 
ciation. 

Office, 102 Canal street. Charles Cavaroc, 
pres. ; G. Lanaiix, sec. Directors — C. 
Cavaroc, C. DeRuyter, A. Reichard, L. 
Haas, jr., E. F. Mioton, W. Agar, S. Cam- 
bon, U. Maranoni, A. Poiney, Ant. La- 
nata, F. E. Bern:u-d, J. Egli. 

New Orleans Mutual Insurance Com- 
pany. 

Office, cor. Camp and Canal street"!. J. 
Tuyes, pres. ; J. W. Hincks, sec. Direc- 
tors — George Urquhart. A. Rochereau, 
G. W. Babcock, August Reichard, T. B. 
Blanchard. W. B. Schmidt, M. Payro. E. 
Millenberger, J. Tuyes, A. Schj'eiber, 
Charles Latitte and P." Forstall. 

Salamander Insurance Company. 

25 Royal. Charles Roman, pres. ; Jules 
Le More, sec. Directors--Charles Ro- 
man, James Wood, Domiiiojo Fatjo. T. 
Bailly Blanchard, Placide Forstall, Fran- 
cois Giieydan, Felix Limet. C. E. Girar- 
dey, M. A. DeLizardi, Christian Ro.selius, 
Felix Grim.a, J. Villarrubia, Arthur For- 
stall, Charles Latitte, Emile Dupre, Cle- 
ment Millaiidon, B. Saloy, C. Tiblier, Ant. 
Lanata, Louis Matbe. 



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Sun Mutual Insurance Company. 

Camp, cor. Commoii.'inl pi. Thomas Sloo 
pies. ; J. G. Gaines, vice-pics. ; Thoma! 
Audei-soii, sec. Directors — Jolin G 
Gaines. Hciirv Rcushaw, B. Biscoo. W. K 
Sevinoiir. Hiij;h Wilson. K. J. Hart, B. 1<' 
Tayloi-. ,}. C. Weis, 1. II. Staullcr, I. N 
Marks, Thomas Sloo. 

Teutonia Insurance Company. 

Oflice. Ill Gra\ ier. A. Kimer Bader. pros. ; 
C. Kngstleld. vice-prcs. ; George Stroe- 
meyer, sec. Board olTnisteos— A. Elmer 
Bailer. L. Sehiieider. S. L. Nasits, R. SieK, 
.J. Uassinaer. II. K. Cosrcve. II. Eicke, L. 
Schwarz.'AVilliam Davis, 0. 11. Millet, C. 
L. L. iMayer. 11. Pohlmann, E. F. Del 
Bondio, T." Eillieiithal, F. Kickert, J. M. 
Schwarz, 0. Enuotteld, I. Scherk, ^f. A, 
Baumsarden, Frank Koder, W. B.Sclunidt 
M. Frank, H. VVeisenbach, Joseph Keller. 

The Economy Wlulual Aid Association 
of New Orleans. 

110 Gravier St., cor. Bank pi. T>ouis Schnei- 
der, pres.; J. B. Gnthrie, sec. Trnstees— 
J. G. Gaines, William II. Ilolcombe. 
Louis Schneider, W. G. Robinson, J. S. 
Walton. W. Van Norden. J. B. Gnthrie. 
J. C. Morris. J. A. Blalter, .Julius Weis. 
Dr. Jules Font, medical examiner. 

The Howard Mutual Aid Association. 

46 Camp. A. Fortier, pres. ; B. L. Brown, 
sec. 

The Live Stock Insurance Company 
of New Orleans. 

Office, Carondelet. T. S. Williams, pres. ; 
W. J. Johnson, sec. 

The Peoples' Insurance Company. 

Office, 5 St. Peters st. R. M. Davis, pres. ; 
A. Graun-er. sec. Directors — R. M. Davis, 
A. Socola, Rich. Enj;land, J. K. Gourdain, 
N. A. Llambias, Jos. David, F. Jaufroid, 
J. J. Reiss, E. L. Fevre, F. Sancho, H. 
JIauuel, A. Ilaber, R. Dumestre, S. Cam- 
bou. Ernest Praunst, P. II. Monsseaux, V. 
Battalora, F. Schumacher, B. Saloy, J. B. 
Solaai, J. Newhauser, Jos. Mizzi, M. 
Draskovich. 

Union Insurance Company of New 
Orleans. 

;i Carondelet st. A. Chiappella, pres. ; J. 
M. fiau lojil, see. 

Workingmen's Mutual Life Insurance 
Society. 

A. B. Bacon. i)res. ; John Roy, sec. 



LEVEE REGISTER. 
Posts in 1st District. 

ASCKNI>IN(; liivr.u. 
Nos. 

1. Opposite ComiKoM. 

2. Bel ween < onniiiiu anil Giavicr. 
;!. Oppo-iie (Jravicr. 

A. Poydras. 

."). Between I'ovdras and I.afavetle. 

(i. Opposite l.ai'ayetle. 

7. Between l.alayettc and Girod. 

8. Ojiposile Girod. 



9. Between Girod and Notre Dame. 

10. Opposite Notre Dame. 

11. Opposite .Julia. 

12. Between Julia and St. Joseph. 
i;t. 0|)posile St. Joseph. 

14. Opposite St. Mary's Market. 

15. Opposite Dclord. 
Hi. Opposite Calliope. 
17. Opposite Gaienuie. 

IS. Between (Jaieiuiic and Erato. 

li). Opposite Erato. 

2(1. Between Erato and Thalia. 

21. Op|iosite Thalia. 

22. Between Thalia and Terpsichore. 
2,i. Between Thalia and Terpsichore. 
24. Between Thalia and Terpsichore. 
2.5. Between Thalia and Terpsichore. 
2(i. OpiK>siie Terpsichore. 

27. Belw<'cn Tci |i-:ichore and Henderson. 

28. Op|).i-iir llriidrrson. 

20. BelwcMi lbii,l,i>on and Robin. 

:iO. Opi)osile KoUin. 

:il. N(!ar Robin. 

Ii2. Between Robin and Race. 

;i:!. Ojiijosile Race. 

H4. Between Rai^e and Orange. 

.'io. Opposite Orange. 

30. Between ()raui>e and Richari] 

.■17. Opposite Richard. 

;iS. B(!tW(H'n Richaril and Market. 

30. Opposite .Market. 

40. Between Market and St. James. 

41. Opposite St. James. 

42. Between St. James and Celeste. 

43. Opposite Celeste. 

44. Between Celeste and Nuns. 
4'). Between Celeste and Nuns. 
40. Between Nuns and St. Mary. 

47. Between Nuns and St. Mary. 

48. Betu'ecn Nuns and St. Mary. 

Posts in 2d District. 

DKSCENUING KIVER. 

Nos. 

1. Opposite Canal. 

2. Between (anal and Customhouse. 

3. Between Caual auil Customhouse. 

4. Oppositi' Customhouse. 

5. Between ( iistouihouse and Bienville. 
0. OjipoMti- l;icii\ille. 

7. Betw('( 11 lUeuviUe and Conti. 

8. Ojiposite Conti. 

0. Between CoiUi and St. Louis. 

10. Opposite St. Louis. 

U. Betwe(ni St. Louis and Toulouse. 

12. Oi)])osite Toulouse. 

13. Bi^twecn Toulouse and Jeflerson. 

14. Opposiic .l(llci-.,n. 
1."). Oi)iio^iic M, Tcicr. 

Hi. Oiii)o>iic .I:h k-(in Square. 
17. Ojiposite Jackson Square. 

15. Oppositi! St. Ann. 

11). Between St. .\un and Madison. 

20. Opposite Madison. 

21. Opposite St. Philip. 

22. Between St. Pliilip and Ursulines. 

23. Opiiosite Ursulines. 

21. Between Cr.-ulines and Hospital. 
2."). Between Crsulines and Hospital. 
2(i. Between I'rsulines and Hospital. 
27. Opposite Hospital. 
2S. Opposite Barracks. 
2!t. Opposiic the Mint. 
3I». Opposite the .Mint. 
31. Oiiposite Esplanade. 



Posts in 3d District. 



i>i:sci;xi>iNi 



ri;i)M 



HINI.K IN CONTINUATION 

rill-: 2i> DtSTUicT. 



Opposite Spain. 

Ojjposite Lafayette av. 

Between I>af'ayette av. and Port. 

Between Port and St. Ferdinand. 

Opposite St. Ferdinand. 

Between St. Ferdinand and Montegut. 

Between St. Ferdinand and Montegnt. 

Opposite Montegut. 

Between Montegnl and Cloiiet. 

Between Montejiiit and Clouet. 

Opposite Clouet. 

Between Clotiet and Louisa. 

()p|)osite Louisa. 

Between Louisa and Piety. 

Opposite Piety. 

Between Piety and Desire. 

Between Desire and Elinira. 

Olijjosile Desire. 

Opposite Congress. 

Opposite Bartholomew. 

Between Bartholomew and French. 

Between Bartholomew and French. 



Posts in 4th District. 

ASCENDING RIVER IN CONTINUATION FROM 
THE 1st district. 

Nos. 

49. Opposite St. Mary. 

50. Between St. Mary and St. Andrew. 

51. Opposite St. Andrew. 

52. Between St. Andrew and Adele. 

53. Opposite Adele. 

54. Between Adele and Josephine. 

55. Between Josephine and Jackson. 
50. Between Josephine and Jackson. 

57. Between Jackson and Philip. 

58. Opposite Philip. 

59. Between Philip and Soraparn. 
GO. Opposite Soi-aparu. 

01. Between Soiaparu and First. 

02. Between Soiaparu and First. 

03. Between Suraparu and First. 

04. Opposite First. 

65. Between First and Second. 
00. Between Second and Third. 

07. Opposite Third. 

08. Opposite Fourth. 

09. Between Fourth and Washington. 

70. Opposite Washington. 

71. Between Washington and Sixth. 

72. Between Washington and Sixth. 

73. Opposite Sixth. 

74. Between Sixth and Seventh. 

75. Between Seventh and Eighth. 
70. Opposite Eighth. 

77. Opposite Ninth. 

78. Between Ninth and Harmony. 

79. Opposite Harmony. 

80. I'.clwccn llaiuioiiv and Plea.sant. 

81. <.)pposile Pleasant. 



Nos. 

32. Opposite Elysian Fields. 

33. Bel ween Elvslan Fields and Jlarigny. 
:M. Opposite Mariguy. 

^5. Between Mariguy and Mandeville. 
iO. Opijosite Mainleville. 



MISCELLANEOUS. 

LOUISIANA OIL WORKS, Office 187 

Gravier. 
LA. ICE WORKS, Tchoupitoulas bet. De- 

Lachaise and Aline, Office 58 Camp. 
LA. MASONIC RELIEF ASSOCIATION. 

Office, Ma.sonlc Hall, cor. Perdido and St 

Charles. 

LA. JOCKEY CLUB HOUSE, Esplanade nr. 
Bayou Bridge, Office 27 Carondelet. 

L.\. COTTON F.\C;T0RY, J. C. Denis, Pres. 

.->7 Carondelet, Mill 3d District. 
LA. LIBRARY. Mrs. H. S. Ball. Librarian. 

N. E. cor. Common and Dryades. 
M.VSONIC HALL, (old) S.M.Todd, G. M. 

St Charles. 
.M ASON' IC H.\LL. St John. Peter cor.Oliver 

5lh District. 



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METAIKIE KACE COURSE, Duncan F. 
Kenner, Pres. New Shell Koad, west end 
Canal. 

MECHANIC'S INSTITUTE, E. S. Diyades, 
bet. Canal and Common. 

MORGAN'S N. O. & TEXAS R. E. DEPOT. 
Verrett Av. 5th District. 

MORGAN'S U. S. MAIL LINE & R. R. 
OFFICE, cor. Magazine & Natchez. 

MORGANS' FERRY, Foot of St Ann. 

MORESQUE BUILDING, Poydras, Camp, 
South and St Francis. 

NEW ORLEANS AND BAY ISLAND 
FRUIT CO.. F. Pace, Jr. Pres. Peter Torre 
Sec. 6 St. Peter. 

NEW ORLEANS CONSERVATORY OF 
MUSIC, Tlieopilus Masac, pres. 90 Baronue 

NEW ORLEANS COTTON EXCHANGE, 
E. H. Summers, president, H. G. Hester, 
Superuiteadent and Secretary, 187 Gravier 

NEW ORLEANS FEMALE INSTITUTE' 
Mme. Loquet Leroy, Principal, 280 
Camp. 

NEW ORLEANS, FLORIDA AND HA- 
VANA STEAMSHIP CO., J. K. Roberts. 
Secretary, 120 Common. 



Monuments. 

CLAY, Canal, opp. Royal and St. Charles. 

JACKSON, Decatur, St. Peter, Chartres 
and St. Ann. 

DE SOTA AND JACKSON STATUES, Ro- 
tunda of Custom House. 



Military Organizations. 

LOUISIANA LEGION.— Organized June 
28. 1S70. Barracks and llcadiiuarteis, 
Davidson's ct., 120 Carondclct st. Utticers, 
A. P. Mason, brig. gen. comd'g ; W. P. 
Harper, maj. and asst. adjt. gen. ; W. E. 
Fitzgerald,' maj. and Q.M. ; G. A. Wil- 
liams, capt. and iusp. gen.; Henry Puissan 
capt. and aid-de-camp. Dr. J. Dickson 
Bruns surgeon. 



Markets. 

Bazaar Market, bet Decatur and St. Pliillip, 
Peters and Dumaine. 

Carrollton Market, Dublin bet. Hampson 
and id Carroll ton, 

Claiborne Market, Claiborne, bet. Gasquet 
and Common. 

Dryades, Drj'ades, bet. Terpsichore and 
Thalia. 

French Market, bet. Peters and Decatur, 
from St. Ann and Ursulines. 

Jefferson City Marlcet, Magazine, n.w. cor. 
Berlin 

Keller, bet. Felicity and St. Andrew, 
Locust and Magnolia. 

LeBreton, Bayou rd, s. w. cor. Dolhonde. 

Magazine, Market bet. Blagazine and 
Camp, St. Mary and St. Andrews. 

Ninth Street Market, Magazine, bet. 9th 
and H.amony. 

Pilie, Poydras, bet. Rampart and Basin. 

Port Market, Elysian Fields, cor. Levee. 

Poydras, bet. N. and S. Poydras, Baronne 
and Ramp. .It 



Soraparu, Tchoupitoulas, bet. Sorpah:u 
and Rousseau. 

St. Bernard Avenue, St. Bernard Av. cor. 
Claiborne. 

Treme, Orleans, bet. Marais and Robertson. 

Washington, Chartres, ne. cor. Louisia. 



Merchant's Exchange. 

E. S. Royal bet. Canal and Custom House. 



Mechanic's Institute. 

E. S. Drj'ades bet. Canal and Common. 



Newspapers and Publications. 

GERMAN GAZETTE (daily), J. Hassinger. 
propr. 108 Camp. 

L'AVENIR (French) (sem-weekly). L. E. 
Marchand, publisher, eilitor and pi-opr. 
HI Chartres. 

LA RENAISSANCE LOUISIANNAISE 
(French), published weekly by Henry Du- 
bos, 48 Conti, cor. Exchange pi. 

LE PRUPAGATEUR CATHOLIQUE, 
(French), a weekly religious paper. Am. 
Lutten, editor, Madison, cor. Chartres. 

LOUISIANIAN, W. G. Brown, editor, 114 
Carondcle t. 

MORNING STAR AND CATHOLIC 
MESSENGER, iniblished weekly by the 
New Orleans Catholic Piddication Co., at 
No. 124 Carondelet. Director.^ — The Most 
Rev. Archbishop N. J. Perclie. pies ; Rev. 
Cornelius Moynilian, Rev. T. J. Kenny 
Rev. Jeremiah Moynilian. Mr. Hugh Mc- 
Clo.sky; Mr: John McCaffrey, treas; Mr. 
T. Fitzwilliam, sec. 

NEW ORLEANS BEE (French) piihished 
daily and sem-weeldy by Dufour & Limet, 
73 Charti-es st. 

N. O. COTTON AND PRODUCE CIRCU- 
LAR, Philip J. Punch, editor, 122 Gravier. 

NEW ORLEANS PRICE CURRENT, 
Young, Bright & Co., editors and pro- 
prietors, 129 and 131 Gravier st. 

NEW ORLEANS REPUBLICAN, (daily 
and weekly), published by N. O. Repub- 
lican Printing Co., Wm. R. Fish, editor, 
94 Camp st. 

NEW ORLEANSTIMES(.laily and weekly) 
C. A. Weed, publi.shei', 70 Camp st. 

OUR HOME JOURNAL (weekly), J. H. 
Hummel, publisher, 106 Camp st, 

PICAYUNE (daily and weekly), D. C. Per- 
kins, editor, 66 Camp St. 

RURAL SOUTH LAND (weekly), E. F. 
Russell, editor, 78 Carondelet. 

SOUTHERN PLANTATION, (semi- 
monthly), T. Watters & Co., publishers, 
27 Commercial pi. 

SOUTHWESTERN PRESBYTERIAN, 

published by the Ti'ustees of the Dei)osi- 
tory. Heny M. Smith, D. D. editor. Office, 

36 Camp st. 

THE MAGNOLIA, (weekly), A. M. C. 
Messena, editor, 118 Carondelet. 

THE NATIONAL REPUBLICAN, 109 
Gravier. 



New Orleans Gold and Stock Exchange. 

W. Frazer. agt., 57 Camp. 



New Orleans Merchants' and Auction- 
eers' Exchange. 

19 Exchange PI. and 20 Royal. 



New Orleans Free Medical Dispensary. 

H. Shilly, dispenser. 164 Carondelet. 



New Orleans Dental College. 

Cor. Carondelet and Perdido Sts. 



New Orleans Gymnasium. 

Scott & II.Mmmersly. Managers, 170 Canal. 



New Orleans Homcepathic Dispensary. 

No. 4 Rampart St.. bet. Canal and Common 
Sts. Free consultation dailv. 



New Orleans Law Association Library. 

J. H. Rozier. President, Thomas L. Boyne, 
Secretary. Court House, cor. St. Ann and 
Chartres. 



New Orleans Military High School. 

(private). 188 Race. T. 15. Edwards iind 
Samuel H. Lervis. Priiu-ipals. 



New Orleans School Medicine. 

Common cor. Villere. 



New Orleans Sugar Shed Company. 

Julius A. Blanc. Pie.-^ideiit, Levee bet. and 
from Custom House to St Louis. 



New Orleans Transfer Company. 

Frank Borge. .Suijerinteinlent, 22 Camp. 



North German Lloyds Steam Ship Line. 

42 Union, 1st Dist. 



North German Union Consulate. 

42 Perdido. 



Orleans Draining Machine. 

Carondelet walk bet. Orleans and St. Peter. 



Orleans Fencing Club. 

Qirivate), 1.50 Ro.val. 



Orleans Institute. 

sirs. Foniet, Directress, 99 Toulouse. 



Orleans Oil Manufacturing Company. 

Office, 17 Exchange Place. C. E. Girardy. 
Piesident. .J. II. 0"Coiiiier. Secretary. M. 
H. Sliejipard. .Superintendent. Building 
on I'atter.<on, from Cbest.iut to Elmira, 
two blocks above 3d District I'cnv. 



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Odd Fellow's Hall. 

118 Camp, opp. South St. 



Ponchar Train Railroad Depot Build- 
ing- 

Front foot of Girod. 



Parish Hall. 

Villerie, bet. Sef^iin and Baitholomew. 



Parish Prison. 



Orleans bet. Libeity and Marais, Robert W. 
Johnson, Superintendent. 



Phylsicians and Surgeons. 

E. Adler. F. B. Albers, F. R. Alpnente, 
C, P. Ames, Edward Ames, O. Anfoux, 
Richard Angell, S. M. Angell, (Iiomeo- 
pathio), W. G. Aussin, A. F. Axson, 
Walter Baily. E. D. Beach. C. Beard. J. G. 
Beldon. S. M. Bemiss, Joseph Bensadon, 
Eufjene Berjot. William H. Berthelot, 
Charles Bickham. C. J. Biokham. Welde- 
mar Billie. William W. Black. P. C. Boyer. 
J A. Bradbury. D. Warren Brickell. T. E. 
Broaddius, M. Brown, J. Dickerson 
Burns. A. H. Burritt. R. O. Butler, J. W. 
Caldwell, 'ITiomas Campbell, J . A. Can- 
trelle. Ano;ustus Cai derille, St. Case 
Carlos. D. Ciistellanos, S. E. Chille, A. 
ChastJinU Samuel Choppen. Julius Clark. 
Mrs. T. Cook. L. Coursault, Leondas M. 
Cowan. 1. L. Crowoour, N. J. Crow, J. M. 
Ci.llen, Hcnrj- D'Aquin, T. M. Davieson, 
J. I). Davis. R. Gretna Da\is, Ernest De- 
Blane, .fohn DelArto, F. H. Dennis, Abel 
DeRoaldes, A. B. DeVilleeuve. G. De\Ton, 
W. B. Dodson. E. S. Drew, M. Drew, A. 
Dncatel. Augiiste Dnpagneer, D. Durac, 
Pierre F. Durel. J. G. Dyer. J. E. Eylandt 
Charles Faget, L. Ferrier, T. Fen is. James 
Fiiuiey. J. A. G. Fisher, A. F. Follin, J. N. 
Folweil, Jule Font James Ford, Felix For- 
menio. W. R. F. Fryer. F. B. Gaudet, J. O, 
Guimbellot. J. W. Hallisy, A. Hanneman, 
Edward Harrison, Alexander Hart, F. 
Hartman. Jene Hava, John B. Henilerson, 
Stephen Ilerrick, W. H. Holcombe. D, C. 
Holliday. Joseph Holt, S. R. Hurd, Paul 
Jegon, J. B. Johnson, A. A. Jones. James 
Jones, Joseph Jones, W. B. Jones. George 
Kellogg. Thomas Kennedy. W. E. Kenne- 
dy. Otto Kratz. Isidoie Labatut, Alexandre 
Landry.Y. R. LeMoimier, Ernest Lewis. 
E. S. I^ewis, George Lewis, J. H. Lewis. 
J. S. Lewis. J. E. Lockwood, F. Loaber, 
Samuel Legan. T. R. Lurton, John J. 
Lyons, Benjamin Maas, J. B. Mailhe. 
William R. Mandeville. L. Marette, Sabin 
Martin, Alfred Mercier. J. J. Mevlor. 
Uriel R. Milncr. W. S. Mitchel. Jacob F. 
Majonner, George Monelte. Joseph T. Mo- 
reau. Mrs. Cora Moret, A. W. Morse. B. H. 
Moss, B. F. .Mullen. E. A. Murphy. I, 
Nagel. W. N. Naudain, Thomas Nicholson. 
Theodore Oriad. J. D. Petez. Joseph Demi 
Pi<iue, B. A. Poi)e, J. J. Reily. Fran<'ois 
Kibot, T. G. Richardson. G. Ridgely, W. 
H. Bartholomew Rily, J. B. Ritchie. L. 
Roesch, A Roth, Louis Charles Roudanez, 
L. C. Roudanez, S. C. Russell, Charles 
Sabourin. Antoine Samsot, H. D. Schmidt, 
Joseph Schmittle. J. W. Shoenecker. M, 
Schuppert, Joseph T. Scott, G. Scratchley 
Edward T. Shepard. L. B. Slmles. \i. 
Smilh. I.iborto L. Solanas. IMinund 
Souchon, John C. Stickney. XaUianiel 



Stolzenburgh, N. Stolzenburgh, Warren 
Stone. James Syme, F. L. Tanejs J. A. 
Thurber, Just Touatre, P. Tricou, De- 
Beaummont L, Trigant. Charles C. Turpiu, 
Theodore Ulrichs. W. H. AA'^atkins. Baraek 
A. Wefelsburgh, C. B. White, F. Wilhoft, 
W. C. Wilson, Sidney S. Wood, 1. R. S. 
Zehender. 



RAILROADS. 



NEW ORLEANS AXD LAKE POINT- 
CHARTRAIX R. R. George Pandely, 
pres. and supt, : Wm. J. Carter, sec. 
New Depot, foot of Lafayette. Stations, 
fo"t of Canal, French Market, Claiborne, 
Gentilly station. 

NEW ORLEANS, JACKSON AND 
GREAT NORTHERN R. R. CO. H. 
S. McComb, pies.; E. Q. Sewell, gen. 
supt. ; R. S. Charles, see. and treas. ; J. 

B. Morey, freight and passenger agt. ; 
J. T. J. Anderson, storekeeper. Princi- 
pal office. Odd Fellows' Hall, 118 Camp. 
Depot foot of Calliope. Through Ticket 
otHce, Camp, cor. Common. 

MORGAN'S LOUISIANIA AND 
TEXAS R. R. George Pandely, supt. ; 

C. E. Whitney & Co., agts. Office, 
Magazine, ne. cor. Natchez. 

NEW ORLEANS BATON ROUGE 
AND VICKSBURGH R. R. S. C. 
Pomeroy, pres. ; Geo. W. Cochran, vice- 
pres. and gen. supt. ; Porter Farley, sec. 
and asst. treas. 44 Perdido. 

NEW ORLEANS, MOBILE AND 
TEXAS R. R. J.ames A. Raynor, pres.; 
G. W. R. Bayley. gen. sunt. ; William 
J. Phelps, gen! fieight agt.; Geo. G. San- 
born, gen. ticket agt. ; A. Kingsbury, 
Cashier's Offices, 2 Exchange ct.. New 
York, and Camp, cor. Common, New 
Orleans. 



City Railway Lines. 

Canal and Claiborne St. Railway Co., office, 
6 Camp St. E. J. Hart, pres. ; J. H. De- 
Grange, see, ; Francis Bone, supt. 

Cresent City Railwjiy Co., offiee, 46 Canal. 
David McCoard, pres.; Charles Pitts, 
sec. ; P. Lwin, E. J. Hart, M. McGraw, 
P. Maspero, directors. 

Magazine St., 6th Dist., Kaiser & Judt, 
proprietors. Magazine bet. Peters A v. 
and Octavia. 

New Orle.ans City Railway Co., office, 124 
Canal St. Frederick Wintz, pres. ; Wm. 
P. Sinuott, sec. and treas. ; C. R. Evans, 
supt. 

New Orleans and Carrollton, Railway Co., 
office. 17 Baronne st. Gen. G. T. Beaure- 
gard, pres.; P. McBride, sec; J. M. 
Reid, supt. 

Orleans Railway Co., office, at station. La- 
harpe, cor. White St. B. Saloy, pres. ; 
P. Tinse, sec. ; John Langles. treas. 

St. Charles St. Railway Co.. office, 8th. cor. 
Carondelet sts. Allien McCleUan, pres. ; 
Samuel S. MeCuen, sec. 



notaries Public. 

The following list contains the names of 
all Notaries, date of their appointment 
in the Parish and City of New Orleans, 
to the l.")tli of October. 1870. also, when 
all rcconls may be found : W. D. Ash. 
Jan. ISth, l-Oi), Charles G. Andry, July 



29th. 1869. J.ames D. Augustin, Aug. 
9th. 1869. Alphonse Barnett, July 29th, 
1869. Edward Barnett, 18 Royal, July 26. 
1869. Thomas J. Beck, July 22d, 1869. 
John Bendernagel, I'd St. Charles app'd 
Jidy 23d, 1869, has records of Jlichael 
Hahn, D. J. Richards, 1844 to 18:, . and 
Hugh AVadden, 1861 to 1867. A. E. 
Beinvenu, July 31st, 1869. Eusebe 
Bounv, July 26th, 1869. Theodule Buis- 
son, Aug. 18th, 1969. Geo. W. Christy, 
July 22cl, 1869. Joseph Cohn, July 26th, 
1869. Theodore Guyol, July 4th, 1869. 
Joseph Cuvillier, 80 Exchange pi. July 
20, 1869, has records of J. B. F. Ped- 
desclaux, 1828, to 1830. P. Charies Cuv- 
ellier, July 24th, 1869. J. Morris Day. 
Feb. 2d. 1869. Octave DeArmiis, July 
26th, 1869. Henry C. Dibble, Dec. 18th, 

1868. Andrew D. Doriocourt, Aug. 3d, 

1869. Antonio Doriocourt Aug. 3d, 
1869, Abel Dreyfous, Aug. 18th, 1869. 
Oscar Drouet, Aug. 5th, 1869. Amedee 
Ducatel, July 29th, 1869. Marcel T. 
Ducros, Sept. 10th, 1869. Ferdinand B. 
Earhart, Feb. 2d, 1869. Ernest Eude, 
Aug. 26th, 1869. John G. Eustis, July 
27th, 1869. James Fahey, July 29th, 
1869. Charles Victor Fonlon, August 
13th, 1869. Michael Gernon, July 3d, 
1869. E. G. Gottschalk. Aug. 24th, 1869 
James Graham, 17 Commerciiil pi. Dec. 
11th, 1868. Ed^-ar Grima, Aug. 11th, 
1869. A. Hero, jr., 17 Commercial pi., 
Dec. 8th, 1868. John H. Isley, jr.. April 
8th, 1869. F. ^Y. Jones, St. Charles St., 
cor. Melpomene, Dec. 11th, 1868. Wil- 
liam McC. Jones, July 26th. 1869. Alcec 
J. Ker. Aug. 19th, 18"69. Robert J. Ker, 
July 22d. 1669. W. B. Kleinpeter, July 
26th, 1869. Paul E. Laresche, Aug. 19th, 
1869. Gust.ave LeGardeur, July i6th, 
1869. A. J. Lewis, Aug. 11th, 1869. 
Charles W. Lowell, April 15th, 1869, 
Charles Martinez, Dec. 12th, 1868. 
Adolph Mazureau. July 20th, 1869. 
Christoval Morel. July 26th, 1869. Oc- 
tiive Morel, Aug. 3d, 1869. John N. 
Ogden. Aug. 2d.' 1869. Sanders D. Oli- 
ver, April 10th, 1969. F. C. Remick. 
Jan. 16th, 1869. F. D. Seghers, Aug. 
23d, 1869. N. B. Trist, Sept. 2d, 1869. 
Arthur Waugh. July 27th, 1869. E. G, 
Well, July 24th, 1860. F. A. Wooltley. 
Nov. 24th, 1868. 

The following has been appointed since 
Jan. 1st, 1870. : William J. Castell. Chas. 
Stringer, Robert _^utchinsou, AVynne 
Rogers. Alfred Ingraham. C. A. Scott, 
O. L. Kernion. John F. Cotfee, Thomas 
Layton. Felix Grima, Armand Pilot, jr., 
Etienne Lauer, Edward Allen 

A. Hero, jr., 17 Commercial pi. custodian 
ol notarial records, has the following 
records: A. Abat, 1847 to 1862. J. 
Agaisse, 1843 to 1862. A. C. Ains- 
worth, 1845 to i850. A. Almonester, 
1770 to 1782. J. Amand, 1827 to 1829. 
T. J. Add. 1846 to 1847. A. A. Bau- 
douin, 18,i0 to 1855. P. Bertus. 18.33 
to 1835, and 1841 to l>^3 A. Blache, 
1868. C. Brown, 18.53 to 18.59 William 
Boswell, 1825 to 1838. J. AV. Breedhne, 
1857 to 1868. A. Brocard. 1860 to 1862, 
Henrv Brown, 1804 to 1805. F. Brou- 
teii, 1790 to 1799. A. Cuvellier. 18.50, 
H. B. Cenas, 1834 to 1859. J. AV. Ca- 
ble. 1850 to 1856. J. Castanie, 1866 to 
1867. AVilliam Christy, 1827 to 1849, 
and 1853 to 1857. M. DeArmas, 1809 to 
1823. Christoval DeArm.as, 1815 to 
1828. Felix DeArmes. 1823 to 1839. 
Carlos DeArmes, 1833 to 18.35. James 
Dunlap. 1857 to 1859. Clude Dejan. 
1813 to 1815. Guv Duplantier. 1854 to 
1857. E. Duplessis, 1843 to 1846. J. 



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W. Duplessis, 1855 J. N. Duncan, 
18-26 to 1829. A. A. Ducros, 18G0. 
Horatio Davis, 1837 to 1840. S. B. 
Davis, 1843 to 1853. A. Devall, 1850. 

F. DeArmes, jr., 1861 to 1S02. John 
L. Davis, 1S66 to 18(J7. C. O. Duoue, 
lS6(i to 1807. O. T. Estliu, 1855 to 1856. 
Jos. Fernandez, 1768 to 1770. E. Fitch, 
1805 to 1810. Louis Feraud, 1827 to 

.1838. C. E. Fortier, 1859 to 1862. J. 
B. Garie, 1771 to 1779. H. K. Gordon, 
1825 to 1830. P. F. S. Godfrey. 1808 to 
1809. J. P. Gelly, 1847 to 1850. F. L. 
Hubbard, 1863. L. Hermann, 1839 to 
1850. John E. Holland, 1845 to 1853. 
John H. Holland, 1859 to 1863. F. 
N. Haralson, 1847 to 1851. VV. U. 
Howe, 1867. Andrew Hero. 1864 to 
1867. E. Heriart 1850 to 1851. J. E. 
Jarreau, 1857 to 1862. 0. Janin, 1828 
to 1833. R. Jacobs, 1829 to 1833. T A. 
James, 1862. John Jones, 1859 H. 
Keating, 1852 to 1855. C. L. Kerman, 
18.54 to 1857. J. i\I. & J. G. Kennedy, 
1851 to 1856. P. P. Labarre, 1840 to 
1850. C. C. Ladrayere, 1849 to 1856. 
P. Lacoste, 1838 to 1862. M. Lafitte, 
1810 to 1826. W G. Latliam, 1845 to 
1864. H. Lavergne, 1819 .to 1827. 

G. Leganleur, 1833 to 1837. Jos. Lis- 
bony, 1846 to 1860. G. Lugenbnlil, 1850 
to 1862. Jno. Lynd, 1804 to 1821. W. 
R. Leckie, 1851. U. Y. Lewis, 1835 to 
1848. S. H. Lewis. 1838 to 1847. E. L. 
Lewis, 18.54 to 1856. H. Lucas, 1846 to 
1850. L. Laugrin, 1863 to 1866. H. J. 
Labatt, 1866 to 1867. J. B. Marks, 1836 
to 1851. N. Brouton, 1799 to 1819, J. 
B. Beard, 1847 to 1850. T. J. Beck, 

1849 to 1862, and 1865 to 1867. T. A. 
Bartlett, 1854. C. Boudousquie 1838 to 
18.50, and 1865 to 1866. A. Boudou- 
squie, 1850 to 1866. R. Brenan, 1852 to 
1867. P. S. Birou, 1853 to 1857. C. T. 
Caire, 1826 to 1850. P. H. Gaire, 1850 
to 1858. John Claiborne, 1850 to 1854. 
H. L. Castellanos, 1861. A. Chaipella, 
18.39 to 1855. A. Commandeur, 1858 to 
1862. L. F. M;iureau, 1843 to 1846. J. 
M. Maureau, 1846 to 1850. D. L. Mc- 
Cay, 1836 to 1847. W. Monaghan, 1850 
to 18.55. Albin Michel. 18.38. A. 
Mazureau, 1829 to 1861. Jules Mossy, 
1833 to 1847. E. Mazange, 1780 to 1783. 
B. W. Miller, 1833 to 1834. J. A. Men- 
diverre, 1863 to 1865. C. L. Marshall 
1855 to 18,56. P. Pendergrasl, 1850 to 
18.52. R. Perdonne, 1782 to 1790. Pe- 
ter Pedesclaux, 1787 to 1816. Philip 
Pedesclaux, 1817 to 1S26. Hugh Pedes- 
claux, 1830 to 1837, and 1853 to 1862. 
Felix Percy, 1839 to 1862, Denis Preiur, 

1850 to 1853. Carlisle Pollock. 1815 to 
1845. O. H. Perry, 1850 to 1853. W. 
L. Poole. 1850 to 1862. Barnard Phil- 
lips, 1844 to 1854. W. L. Poindexter, 
1854. J. G. Poindexter, 1854 to 1857. 
Walter H. Peters, 1853 to 1866. S. 

- Quinones, 1805 to 1815. J. A. Quinters, 
1866 to 1868. George Rareshide, 1851 
to 1858. H. Rareshide, 1803 to 1856. 
P. W. Robert, 18.52 to 18.54. Geoige 
J. Ross, 1810 to 1813. F. Rod- 
reguez, 1783 to 1788. Theo. Seghers, 
1828 to 1842. Jacob Soria, 1850 to 1855, 
Neville Soule, 1857 to 1860. G. R. 
Stringer, 1823—1843, to 1849. P. E. 
Thread, 1853 to 1857. T. F. Thienemann, 
1845 to 1847. T. Tureau, 1837 to 1845. 
L. Turgeau. 1S38 to 1848. B. Van 
Pradelies, 1806 to 1808. J. H. Van 
Dalson, 1S50 to 1852. W. H. AVilder, 
1847. W. W. W. Wood, 1850 to 1862. 
J. R. Winchester, 1867. C. Ximine.s, 
1790 to 1805. Savinien Blanc, not 
found. Jno. V. Bogart, not fonnd. 
Dennis Corcoran, 1849. John Craig, 
1850. Paris Childress, destroyed by 



fire. Alfred Ducros, not found. Ed- 
ward Floyd, destroyed by fire. 

Guriot, destroyed by fire. Jno. F. 
Lowell, not found. C. Maurian, not 
found. F. Munhall, not found. R. D. 
Mudge, not found. J. M. G. Parker, 
not found. L. Pinelle, not found. 
Chas. W. Seaton, not found. W. T. 
Spear, not found. W. H. Shepperd, 
not found. E. A. Tallarie, not found. 
Jno. Truro, not found. M. G. Beck, 
John G. Holland, E. Commagere. S. 
Wagner, D. Corcoran, John Cragg, E. 
A. Conand, C. Martinez, E. Burthe, L. 
Duigueand, A. Robert, L. R. Keiniy, J. 
A. Drogstede, D. Clark, jr., J. B. G. 
Arnoult, S. Powell, F. J. Larzcr, W. H. 
Pascoe, T. McCormack, J. T. Michel, P. 
E. Davis, C. C. Porter, J. Hotard, J. 
Fabor, B. Campbell. 



Sheriffalty of Parish and City of New 
Orleans. 

Sheriffs office in Court House. 

CRIMINAL DEPARTMENT. 

J. A. Massicot, criminal sherifl'; J. V. Bo- 
flll, act'g chief deputy, first district. 

PARISH PRISON. 

Robert W. Johnson, deputy sheriff, keeper. 

CIVIL DEPARTMENT. 

C. S. Sauvinet, sherift" ; F. M. Sicard, chief 
deputy ; J. Degan, bookkeeper ; Joseph 
Presas, cashier ; Robert Swain, J. P. 
Walden, writ clerks ; W. J. Grady, G. 
Laurent, docket clerks ; Michael DeAr- 
mas, E. Ricker and Albert DeArmas, 
sales dei)artment ; A. F. Lynd, city writ 
department ; A. Reggio, collector of fees. 



Crescent City Yacht Club. 
189 Common Industrial School of our Lady of the 

Holy Cross. 

Recorder of Births, Deaths and Mar- Father Chas. Vlllandre, prln. Front Levee, 
riaqes. bet. Reynes and Tennessee. 

L. Pessou, 24 St. Anthony's al. ; A. A. 
Lafferranderie, chief clerk; Henry Colin, 
assistant clerk. 



Recorder's Court. 

FIRST DISTRICT. 

Office, St. Charles, cor. L.afayette, G. P. 
Houghton, Recorder ; R. McDonnell, 
chief clerk; John James, affidavit clerk; 
A. E. Adams, and Uem-y Fish, assistant 
clerks. 

SECOND DISTRICT. 

OflSce in Criminal Court, 2d floor, A. H. 
McArthur, recorder; A. Lusto, chief 
clerk ; J. E. Mathieu, affidavit clerk ; 
John E. Stacs, bond clerk; Alfred 
Capla, subpcBna clerk. 

THIRD DISTRICT. 

Offieo, Elysian Fields, bet. Royal and 
Dguphine, D. V. Leclerc, recorder; 
John O. Lozo, chief clerk ; E. D. Farr 
and O. J. Rigaud, assistant clerks. 

FOURTH IdSTRICT. 

Office, Rousseau st. near Jackson. A. E. 
Billings, recorder; J. D. O'Conuell, re- 
corder's clerk. 

FIFTH DISTRICT. 

Office, Villere, bet. Seguin and Bartholo- 
mew, John Parsons, recorder; Chailes 
Hill, clerk. 

SIXTH DISTRICT. 

Office, Magazine, bet. Berlin and Na- 
poleon av. Benjamin Campbell, record- 
er ; Harold Percy, cliief clerk. 

ASSISTANT RECORDERS. 

1st dist., T. H. Drapel ; 2d dist., Henry 
Heidenham ; 3d dist., Louis Pessou ; 4th 
dist., William Wi-i!;ht; .5th dist., Wm. 
H. Toy ; 0th dist., Henry M. Van Solin- 
gen. 

City Workhouse. 

PERILLIAT ST., OPP. LOCUST. 

Patrick Buckley, warden ; J. B. Walsh, 
deputy warden ; J. L. Dnpart. clerk ; 
William Stewart, under warden ; E; 
Millieur. under warden ; A. A. Maurice, 
uniler warden. 



Members of the Board of Directors, 
City Schools of New Orleans. 

Hon. H. C. Dibble, President. J. B. Carter, 
superintendent. Office, room 20, City Hall. 
N. T. Kendall, secretary. Directors — 
Michael Hahn, Thomas I^ynne. P. B. S. 
Pinchback. J. R. Clay, B. F. Joubert. C. 
W. Boothby, J. B. Cooper, J. T. Jack- 
son, Jiimes Ijongstreet. L. C. Matlack, 
W. II. Toy; W. Rollinson, sec. 39 Bur- 
gundy, 



Names and Locations of City Schools. 

N. O. Central High School (for Boys), 37 
39 and 41 Bui-gundy st. 

Girls' High School, 1st, 4th and 6th dist. 
Chestnut, bet. Jackson and Philip sts. 

Girls' High School, 2d, 3d and oth dist. 
Royal cor. Hospital. 

Jackson, boys— corner Magazine and 

Terpsichore sts. 
Jackson, girls — Magazine, bet. Tcrpsicliori; 

antl Robin sts. 
Jeft'erson, boys — Dryades, bet. Erato and 

Thalia sts. 
Webster, girls— corner Dryades and Erato 

sts. 
Clio, boys and girls— Clio, bet. St. Charles 

and Prytania sts. 
Paulding, boys and girls— Corner Con- 
stance and Gaiennie sts. 
Maishall, boys— Church, bet. Girod and 

Julia sts. 
Franklin, girls— St. Charles, bet. Girod 

and Julia sts. 
Fish, boys, and branch— Corner Fr.anklin 

and Perilido sts. 
Madison, girls, and branch— Corner Prieur 

and Palmyra sts. 

Fish and Madison, branch, boys and girls — 
Basin, bet. Poydias and Perdido sts. 

Howard, boys and girls — Corner Howard 

and Cypress sts. 
Gravier, boys and girls — Gravior, bet. Lib- 

ertv and Howard sts. 



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Per<liil<>. Boys ami girls— Peiditlo, bet. 
Bolivei- iuul Bertraud sts. 

Johnson, boys anil girls— Johnson bet. 
Terdido and Gravier sts. 

Mason, boys and girls— Gcnois, bet. Gra- 
vier and Common sts. 

Beiiiville. boys— Corner Beinville and 
Robertson St. 

Derliigny. boys and girls— Oerbigny, bet. 
Cnstom house and Bcinvillc. 

Hanipart. girls— Kampart, bet. St. Louis 
and I'onlou.sc sts. 

Claiborne. Ijojs— Corner Claiborne and St. 
Peter sts. 

St. Ann. girls— St. Ann, bet. Marais and 
Viilere sts. 

St. Philip, boys— St. Philip, bet. Boyal and 
Bourbon sts. 

Bairaelis, girls— Barracks bet. Dauphine 
and Bnrgnndy sts. 

I'rsulines. gii-ls— Ursulines, bet. Rampart 
and St. Claude sts. 

Bayou RoMd. gn-ls— Bayou Road, bet. Dcr- 
bigny and Roman sts. 

('liartres. boys and girls— Corner Chaitres 
and Esplanade sts. 

Beauregard, gn'ls — Union, cor. Good Chil- 
dren. 

rill more, boys— Bagatelle, bet. St. Claude 
ajid Marais sts. 

Viilere. boys and girls — Villerc, bet. St. 
.Vntliony ajid Bagatelle sts. 

I.eBrcton. l)oys and girls — Corner Tonti 
aJid On/.aga sts. 

I,ali:niir. buys and girls — Laharpe, bet. 
li.nuan anil I'lienr .sts. 

Bavon Bridge, boys and girls— Bayou St. 
.Jolin. 

(ieniillv. bovs and girls— Gentilly Station, 
Kly<i':in Fields st. 

PoiMcliartrain. boys and girls — Columbia 
St. Milneburg. 

Mariuiiy. boys and girls — Corner Marigny 
and frijuhart sts. 

DcSoto. girls— Mandeviile, bet. Rampart 
and St. Claude sts 

Clialmette, boys — Corner Port and Royal 

st.s. 

Wtishington, girls— Corner Chartres and 
Piety sts. 

Klinir.'i, boys and girls— Elmira, bet. Royal 
and Dauphine sts. 

McCarty. boys — Paidine, bet. Chartres 
and Uoyal sts 

Hancock, boys and girls — Peters, bet. Mon- 
roe .and Hancock sts. 

Dauphine. l)oys and girls — Corner Dau- 

pliine and Hancock sts. 
Kulton. boys and girls — Corner Fulton and 

Josephine sts. 
Laui-cl, boys — Corner Laurel and Philip 

.sts. 
McDononyh, girls — Laurel, bet. Philip and 

First sts. 

I.:nn-cl and McDonouirh Branch, boys and 
uiil — St. Marv. bet. Uoiisscau and Ke- 

li,-iliUS sts. 

M:c'Unli:i. bnvs— Cnrnndclet. bet. Jackson 
an. I I'liiii-,. s;... 



Magnolia, girls — Carondelet, bet. Jackson 

and Philip sts. 
Keller, boys and girls— Magnolia, bet. 

Felicity and St. Andrew sts. 
St. Andrew, boys and girls— Corner St. 

Andrew and Willow sts. 
Live Oak, girls— Corner Constance and 

9th sts. 

Live Oak, boys— Corner Constance and 

9th sts. 
Dryades. boys and girls— Corner Dryades 

and Oth sts. 
Greenville, boys and girls — Market bet. 

Chestnut and VValmitsts. 

Lcontine, boys and girls— Live 0.ak, bet. 
Valmont and Lcontine sts. 

Cadiz, boys and girls— Corner Cadiz and 

Coli.seum sts. 
Jersey, boys and girls — Jersey bet. "Valence 

and Bordeaux sts. 

Na|)olcon Avenue, girls — Napoleon ave- 
nue, bet. Magazine and Camp sts. 

Valence, boys— Valence, bet. Camp and 
Chestnut sts. 

Coliseum, girls — Coliseum, bet. Valence 
and Bordeaux sts. 

Austerlitz, boj-s and girls — Austerlitz bet. 
Magazine and Live Oak sts. 

Marengo, boys and girls — Marengo bet. 
Magazine and Live Oak sts. 

Magazine, boys and girls — Magazine bet. 
Toleilano and Louisiana avenue. 

Delaronde, bovs and girls — Delaronde, bet. 
Bonny and Viilere sts. 

Villette, boys an<l girls— Villette, bet. 
Alix and Kliza st.s. 

Tunisburg, boys and girls. 
Cut-ofl' Road, boys and girls. 
St. Mary's School, Combronne, m-. 2d st. 
Carrolltoii. 

St. Michael School. Rev. M. SLeehan, 
director, SO Chippewa st. 

St. Patrick's School, by the Christian 
Brothers, es. Constance, bet. Julia and 
St. Joseph St. 

St. Paul's School. Miss. J. Falconer, piin., 
Gaieiniie cor. Camp st. 

St. Peter's School, cs. Marignj', bet. Royal 
and Dauphine sts. 

St. Simeon's Select School, 131 Annuncia- 
tion St. 

St. Teresa. 131 Erato. 

St. Vincent's Academy, Rev. Father Mim- 
din(N prof.. Rev. Father Albian, director. 
Napoleon av., bet. Magazine and Camp 
sts., Jell'erson. 

School of the Holy Trinity Church. Henry 
Spord. prill., Ferdinand, cor. Royal St. 

Tnird PresI ytcrian (huich School. Roy.al, 
bet. Elysian Fields and Frenchmen st. 



Schools Parochial. 

Annunciation ICpiscopal. ^■>0 Camp. 

(Hirist Cburih Parochial School (boys and 

girls). Beinville nc. cor. Hampart. 
Pryl.MHiM I'mocbial Sclmol. Chic Bcttisou. 

priu.. ri\ !:uiia. su . col. .liiscpbiiic. 



St. Boniface School, Galvez, cor. Lapey- 
rouse. 

St. Joseph, Sister Angelica, superior, Jena, 
cor. Prytania. 

St. Joseph's Parochiiil School, (boys), Bro. 
Cadoc, prin. Howard, bet. Commou and 
Gasquet. 

St. Mary's rarochi.al School, directed by 
the Marionite Sisters of the Sacred 
Heart, 50 and .58 Hospital. 

St. Mary's Parochial School iliiected by 
the clergy of St. Mary, ( hartres, cor. 
Ursulines. 

St. Patrick's Parochial School, (girls), con- 
diictc'l by the Sisters of Mercy, Sister 
Catharine, superior, KIO Magazine. 

St. Rose de Lima, Rev. F. Mattelbron, 
prin.. Bayou rd., bet. Dolhonde and 
Bro.ad. 

Trinity Chapel, Mrs. J. Abott, prin., 476 
Rampart, 1st dist. 

Calvary Parish School, Sth, nw. cor. Pry- 
tania. 

Catholic Institution, for instruction oi 
destitute orphans and children. Victor 
Dupart. pies. ; A. Henry Duhart, sec. 
P. .■\dolphe Duhart, prin., 393 Dau- 
phine St. 

Evangelical Lutheran, Congregration 
Sdiool. C. Zeige, prin.. Port, cor. Bur- 
gundy St. 

Evangelical T,uthcian School. O. Stein- 
mcycr. prin.. Chippewa, cor. 4th St. 

First German Prostestant School, ss. Clio, 
bet. St. (;harles and Carondelet sts. 

First Mission School, 3d, ne. cor. Dry- 
ades .=t. 

German Evangelical Protestant School. F. 
Hullt. teacher. St. Philii), cor. Chijipewa 
street. 

Hebrew Eiliicalioii.il School. Calliope, bet. 
Prytania and St. Cliai Ics sts. 

Holy Trinity, directed by Rev. T. Leonard. 
Royal, bet. St. Ferdinand and Press. 

Mount Carmel, Seguin, se. cor. Alix, 5th 

dist. 

Southern Methodist High School. D. L 
Rust. prin.. 473 Diyades st. 

St. Francis School, 2(1. iir. Franklin av. 

St. Alphonsus School. J. H. Heslin. prin., 
St. Aiidre\\;s, bet. Constance and Maga- 
zine sts. 

St. Henry, Berlin, bet. Magazine and Con- 
stance .sts. 

St. John's Parochial School, Dryades cor. 

Clio St. 
St. Joseph Parish School. Gretna. 
St. Josejih's School, for boys, ns. Howard, 

bet. Gasquet and Common sts. 

St. Joseph's School, for girls. Common, cor. 
Viilere sts. 

St. I,oiiis School, directed by clergy of St. 
Louis Cathedral, IS St. Anthony al. 

St. Mary's boys' school. Daminson Litz 
director, Josephine, cor. Constance st. 

St. Mary's girls' school, in charge of Sisters 
De Notre Dame, Constance, bet. Jose- 
phine and Jack.son sts. 



Seminaries. 



St. .Tames' Hall Sciniimry. Dcrbigny bet. 
Customhoii.se ami lii'iin illc. 



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INDIVISIBLE FRIENDS COMMAN- 
DERY. No. 1 — Perseverance H:ill. 
Officers, Sir John G. Fleming, E. C. 
M. A. Colono-ne, Recorder. 

JAQUES DE MOLAY COMMAN- 
DER Y, No. 2— Grand Lodge Hall. Sir 
James B. Scott, E. C. Gustave Sontag, 
Recorder. 

ORLEANS COMMANDERY, No. 3— 
Grand Lodge Hall. Sir George Baldy, 
E. C. Sir S. B. Wiiglit, Recorder. 

ACTIVE MEMBERS OF THE SU- 
PREME COUNCIL OF THE 33d D. 
FOR THE S.-. J.-. OF THE U.-. S.-. 
FOR LOUISIANA— James C. Batch- 
elor, M. D. 33d, New Orleans. Samuel 
Manning Todd, 33d, New Orleans. J. 
Q. A. Fellows, 33d, New Orleans. 
Achilles R. Morel, 33d, New Orleans. 

M.-. P.-. GRAND CONSISTORY OF 
SUB.-. PP.-.OF THE R.-. S.-. 32d, DE- 
G R E E. ANCIENT ACCEPTED 
SCOTTISH RITE, IN AND FOR THE 

STATE OF LOUISIANA— Otiicers, 111. 
Dan. E. Scrnggs, 32d, Gr. Com'r in- 
Chief. 111. James B. Scott, 32d, 1st 
Lieut. Com'r. 111. John A. Stevenson, 
3L>d, 2d Lieut. Com'r. 111. Thad. D. 
Van Horn, 32d, Gr. Constable. 111. Zet. 
M. Pike, 32d, Gr. Admiral. 111. John G. 
Fleming 32d, Gr. Minister, of State. 111. 
J. P. Horner, 32d, Gr. Chancellor. 111. 
B. Sternklar, 3L>d, Gr. Almoner. Ill G. 
Sontag, 32d, Gr. Registrar. Ill E. 
Blessey, 32d, G. Keeper of Seals. 111. 
H. P. Buckley, 3id, Gr. Treas. 111. H. 
Breen, 32d, Gr. Primate. 111. J. B. 
Walton, 32d, Gr. Master of Ceremonies. 
111. R. L. Bruce, 32d, Gr. Expeit. 111. 
John N. Wood, .32d, Beausenifer. III. 
Mo-es Maver, 32il, Bearer Vexillum 
Belli. I11."S. M. Brown, 32d, Master of 
Guards. 111. Thomas Cripps, 32d, Gr. 
Chamberlin. 111. George B. Ittmans, 
32d. Gr. Steward. 111. W. C. Chamber- 
lain. 32(1, .\id de-Camp. 111. Timothy 
Carroll, 32d, Gr. Tyler. 

TRINOSOPIIES COUNCIL OP KA- 
DOSH, No. 1— M. A. Colongne, 30th. 
T. P. G. M. Charles Colongne;^ 30th Rec. 

POLAR STAR COUNCIL OF KA- 
DOSH. No. .3— Polar Star Hall. Officers, 
James Trudeau, 33d. T. P. G. M. Ph. 
Bidault, 30th, Chancellor. 

ST. ANDREW COUNCIL OF KA- 
DOSII, No. 4— J. F. L. Lamarre, 33d, 
T. P. G. M. J. Leicher, 30th, Chan- 
cellor. 

PERFECT UNION COUNCIL OF 
KADOSH, No. 5— Rampart bet. Du- 
maine and St. Philip sts. Rene Lafon de 
Ladebat, 30th, T. P. G. M. H. Da- 
miens, 30th, Chancellor. 

EAGLE COUNCIL OF KADOSH, No, 
6— Grand Lodge Hall. Joseph P. Hoi- 
nor,32d, V.-. E.-. C". Robert Strong, 
32d, Chancellor. 

LOS AMIGOS DEL ORDEN COUN- 
CIL OF KADOSH, No. 7— Persever- 
ance HaU. Officers, Angel Martin, 33d, 
T. P. G. M. Enrique B. D'Hamel, 30th, 
Chancellor. 

FOYER MACONNTQUE COUNCIL 
OF KADOSH, No. 8— Perseverance 
Hall. U. Marinoni, 30th, T. P. G. M. 
P. Brugier, jr. 30th, Chancellor. 

SILENCIO COUNCIL OF KADOSH, 
No. 9— Polar Star Hall. Officers, G. 
Segui Gahona, 32d, T. P. G. M. Martin 
Perez, 30th, Chancellor. 



UNION COUNCIL OF KADOSH, No. 
10— Cor. Commercial al. and Camp St. 
Officers, Samuel H. Brown, 32d, T. P. G. 
M. Charles Assenheimer, 30th, Chan- 
cellor. 

TRINOSOPHES CHAPTER, ROSE 

CROIX, No. 1— Perseverance Hall. M. 
A. Colongne, 30th, M. W. J. M. Ces- 
sac, 18th, sec. 

POLAR STAR CHAPTER ROSE 
CROIX, No. 3— Polar Star Hall. Offi- 
cers, Jas. Trudeau, 30th, M. W. Ph. 
Bidoult. 30th, sec. 

LOS AMIGOS DEL ORDEN CHAP- 
TER, ROSE CROIX, No. 4— Persever- 
ance Hall. Officers, Jaime Triay, 30th, 
M. W. E. B. D'H.amel, 30th, sec. 

ST. ANDREWS. CHAPTER, ROSE 
CROIX, No. 5— Conti, bet. Villere and 
Robertson sts. Officers, A. Lercher, 30th, 
M. W. J. Pausas, 30th, sec. 

FOYER MACONNIQUE CHAPTER 
ROSE CROIX, No. 6— Perseverance 
Hall. Officers, P. Brugier, jr. 30th, M. 
AV. A. S. Picard, 18th, sec. 

SILENCIO CHAPTER, ROSE CROIX, 
No. 9— Polar Star Hall. Officers, P. 
Ugarte, 32d M. W. FeUs Gilbert, 18th, 
sec. 

PERFECT UNION CHAPTER. ROSE 
CROIX, No. 10— Rampart, bet. Du- 
maine and St. Philip sts. Rene Laf- 
onde Ladebat, 30th, M. W. H. Damiens, 
18th, sec. 

PELICAN CHAPTER, ROSE CROIX, 
No. 11— Grand Lodge HaU. Officers, 
Jas. B. Scott, 32d, M. W. Gustavus 
Sont.ag, b2d. sec. 

KOSMOS CHAPTER, ROSE CROIX, 
No. 12 — Cor. Commercial al. and Camp 
street. 

UNION CHAPTER. ROSE CROIX, 
No. 1.3— Cor. Commercial al. and Camp 
St. Officers, H. Breen, 32d, M. W. Chits. 
Assenheimer, 30th, sec. 

ALBERT PIKE COUNCIL, P. P., OF 
JERUSALEM, No. 1— Grand Lodge 
Hall. Officers, R. L. Bruce, 32d, sov. 
master. 

ALBERT PIKE LODGE OF PERFEC- 
TION, No. 1— Grand Lodoe Hall. Offi- 
cers, Samuel H. Bi-own, 32d, T. P. M. 
Charles Assenheimer, 30th, sec. 



I. 0. 0. F. 

R. W. GRAND LODGE, L O. O. F., of 
the State of Louisiana, meets semi-annu- 
allv on the fourth Tuesday in January 
and July, in New Orleans, in the Grand 
Lodge Room, Odd Fellows' Hall. Otii- 
cers for 1871— Frank Pflster, M. \V. 
Grand Master Eugene P. Brugere, R. >V . 
Deputy Grand Master. Jules A. Florat, 
R. W. G. W. Josiah Folger, R. AV. G. 
S. F. W. Delesdernier, R. W. G. T. 
W. C. Wilson, Geo. Nungesser, R. W. 
Grand Representatives to the R. W. G. 
L. U. S. John G. Dunlap, W. G. C. 

Fergus Fuselier, W. G. M. , W 

G. C. G. F. Mathes, G. G. H. Office of 
the Grand Sec, Odd Fellows' HaU, Camp 
street. 



Subordinate Lodges. 

LOUISIANA LODGE, No. 1, meets ev- 
ery Friday eveniiig in Lodge Room No. 
2, Odd Fe'Uows' Hall. 



WASHINGTON LODGE, No. 2, meets 
every Thursday evening in Washington 

HaU", 3d dist. 

UNION LODGE, No. 6, meets every 
Mondav evening in Lodge Room No. 
2, Odd Fellows' HaU. 

CRESCENT LODGE, No. 8, meets every 
Thursday evening in Lodge Room No. 4, 

O.ld Fellows' HaU. 

JEFFERSON LODGE, No. 9, meets 
every Thursday evening in Jefferson 
HaU, cor. Magazine and Philip sts., 4th 
dist. 

TEUTONIA LODGE, No. 10, meets every 
Tuesday evening in Teutonia Hall, cor. 
Customhouse st. and Exchange al. 

ORLEANS LODGE, No. 11, meets every 
Tuesday evening in Lodge Room No. 4, 
Odd Fellows' HaU. 

COMMERCIAL LODGE, No. 12, meets 
every Wednesday evening in Lodge 
Room No. 2, Odd Fellows' HaU. 

HOWARD LODGE, No. 13, meets every 
Tuesday evening in Lodge Room No. 2, 
Odd Fellows' HaU. 

HOPE LODGE, No. 14, meets every 
Wednesday evening in Lodge Room No. 
4, Odd Fellows' Hall. 

DELTA LODGE, No. 15, meets every 

Mondav evening, in Lodge Room No. 4, 

Odd Fellows' HaU. 
COVENANT LODGE, No. 17, meets 

everv Tuesday evening in Odd FeUows' 

Hall', 3d dist. 

POLAH STAR LODGE, No. 19, meets 

evei-y Wednesday evening in Polar Star 

Hall, St. Louis St. 
MAGNOLIA LODGE, No. 22, meets 

every Tuesday evening in Lodge Room 

No. 2, Odd Fellows' HaU. 
INDEPENDENCE LODGE, NO. 23, 

meets every Thursday evening in Lodge 

Room No. 5, Odd Fellows' HaU. 
COLUMBUS LODGE, No. 24, meets 

every Friday evening in their new 

hall, Algiers. 
GERMANIA LODGE, No. 19, meets 

every Fiiday evening Tchoupitoulas, 

bet. Jackson and Philip sts., 4th. dist. 

PACIFIC LODGE, No. 33, meets every 

Wednesday evening iu Jefferson HaU, 

6ih, dist. 
HERMAN LODGE, No. 39, meets every 

Wednesday evening, in Odd FeUows' 

Hall, 3d dist. 

SOUTHWESTERN LODGE, No. 40, 
meets every Wednesday Evening in 
Lodge Room No. 5, Odd Fellows' Hall. 

HELVETIA LODGE, No. 44, meets 
every Thursday evening, in Helvetia 
Hall, cor. Cadiz and Tchoupitoulas sts., 
Jefl'erson City. 

ORIENT LODGE, No. 46, meets every 

Thursday evening, in Odd Fellows' Hall, 

3d dist. 
EAGLE DEGREE LODGE, No. 1, meets 

first and third Saturday in each month, 

in Lodge Room No. 2, Odd Fellows' Hall. 

Officers for 1871, S. B. Sifers, D. M. 

Charles A. Barnes D. D. M. John H. 

Windellcin, sec. and treas. 

R. W. GRAND ENCAMPMENT L O. 
O. F. State of Louisiana, holds its reg- 
ular sessions on the Third Tuesday in 
January and July of each year-, in the 



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St. Joseph's Seminary, Jean LeFebre, prin. 

212 Orleans. 
Peabody's Normal Seminary, K. M. Lushe, 

siipt., 247 St. Charles. 
St. Mary's Theological Seminary, Ursuline, 

cor. Chartres. Kev. Gilbert Raymond, 

V. G. supt. 

St. Vincent's Seminary, Napoleon av. bet. 
Camp and Chestnut. Father Mandim, 
supt. 



SOCIETIES, SECRET AND BENEVO- 
LENT. 

Masonic. 

Most Worshipfui. Grand Lodge of 
TUE State of Louisiana. 

Officers for 1871. 
Samuel Manning Todd, M. W. Gr'd Mas. 
Amos Kent, R. W. Deputy Gr'd Mas. 
Wm. Rohson, R. W. Sen. War'n. 
John B. Saraparu, R. W. Jun. War'n. 
Hy R. Swasey, R. W. Gr'd Treas. 
Jas. C. Batclielor, M. D. R. W. Gr'd Sec. 
Rev. J. C. Carpenter, W. Gr d Chap'n. 
W. L. DeGraffenreidt, W. Sen. Gr'd Dea'n. 
M. E. Girard, W. Jun. Gr'd Deacon. 
James B. Walton, W. Gr'd Mars'l. 
James B. Dunn, W. Gr'd Sword Be'r. 
Samuel Humes Brown. W. Gr"d Pursivant. 
William Carson, W. Gr'd Steward. 
Timothy Carroll, W. Gr'd Steward. 
Reue Lation deLadebat, W. Gr'd Steward. 
Fred. Dentzel, W. Gr'd Tyler. 



Constituent Lodges. 

Officers for 1871. 

PERFECT UNION, No. 1.— Rampart st. 
bet. Dumaine and St. Philip, 2d Wed- 
nesday and 4th Friday. Officers, Rene 
Lafon deLadebat AV. M. Paul F. La- 
borde, sec. 

POLAR STAR, No. 1.— Polar Star Hall, 
cor. Rampart and Kerlerec sts. 1st and 
3d Fridays. Officers, W. Maylic, W. 
M. F. Levasseur, sec. 

CONCORDE LODGE, No. 3.— Persever- 
ance Hall, cor. Dumaine and St. Claude 
sts. 1st Wednesday of each month. 
Officers, Louis Prados, W. M. E. A. 
Devron, sec. 

PERSEVERANCE LODGE, No. 4.— Per- 
severance Hall, cor. Dumaine and St) 
Claude. 2d and 4th Sunday. Officers 
M. A. Calongne, W. M. Jean Magen- 
die, sec. 

LOS AMIGOS DEL ORDEN LODGE, 
No. 5. — Perseverance Hall, cor. Dumaine 
and St. Claude sts. Officers, Angel Mar- 
tin, W. M. Manu.al Blanco, sec. 

ST. ANDREW LODGE, No. 5— Conti, 

bet. Villeru and Robertson sts. Officers) 

A. Leicher, W. M. Romaine Lafon- 

taine, sec. 
SILENCIO LODGE, No. 9— Polar Star 

Hall, cor. Rampart and History sts. 

Officers, F. DcA. Ribot, W. M. FeUx 

Gilbert, sec. 
FOYER MACONNIQUE LODGE, No. 

44 — Perseverance Ilall, cor. Dumaine 

and St. Claude sts.. 2d and 4th Tuesdays. 

Officers, B. Campiglio, W. M. P. Brugier, 

jr., sec. 

GERMANIA LODGE. No. 40— St. Louis, 
bet. Dert)'guy and Roman sts., 2d and 
4th Weilnosd'ays. Officers, Chas. Kocr- 
ren/.ig, W. M. Ed. Ehrhard, sec. 



FRIENDS OF HARMONY LODGE, 

No. 58— Grand Lodge Hall, South 
Wing, every Tuesday. Officers, Alex. 
Frelfbrd, W. M. Hilel Marks, sec. 

MT. MORIAH LODGE, No. 59—163 
Camp. bet. Girod and Julia sts., everv 
Tuesday. Officers, W. H. Moon, W. M. 
Jas. Funieaux, sec. 

GEORGE WASHINGTON LODGE, 

No. 65— Grand Lodge Hall, South 
Wing, every Wednesday. Officers, Z. 
M. Pike, W. M. F. A. Dentzel, sec. 

DUDLEY LODGE, No. 66— Grand 
Lodge Hall, South Wing, every Satur- 
day. Officers, Ed Marks, W. M. J. B. 
Fox, sec. 

MARION LODGE, No. 68— Grand 
Lodge Hall, South Wing, every Thurs- 
day. Officers, James W. Davis, W. M. 
Thos. Cripps, sec. 

HIR.\M LODGE, No. 70— Grand Lodge 
Hall, North Wing, every Friday. Offi- 
cers, William H. Sims, W. M. Wm. D. 
Taylor, sec. 

ALPHA HOME LODGE, No. 72— Grand 
Lodge Hall, North Wing, every Tues- 
day.' Officers, Feudal Horn, W. M. 
Jos. G. P. Sumner, sec. 

QUITMAN LODGE, No. 73— Odd Fel- 
lows' Hall, Camp St., every Friday. Offi- 
cers, George Johnson, W. M. J. D. 

Tilden. sec. 

ORLEANS LODGE, No. 78— Grand 
Lodge Hall, South Wing, every Friday. 
Officers, C. F. Hufft, W. M. A. Queant, 
P. M., sec. 

HERMITAGE LODGE, No. 98— Tchou- 
pitoulas, bet, Jackson and Philips sts., 
every Tliursday. Officers, A. W. Skar- 
don, W. M. P. "L. Boulocq, sec. 

LOUISIANA LODGE, No. 102— Odd 
Fellows, Hall, Camp st., every Thursday. 
Officers, C. H. Luzenburg, W. M. A. 

Waugh, sec. 

OCEAN LODGE, No. 144— Polar Star 
Hall, cor. Rampart and Kerlerec sts., 
every Wednesday. Officers John Rob- 
inson, W. M. John A. Letten, sec. 

ST. JOHN'S LODGE, No. 153— Algiers 
Parish of Orleans, La., every Tuesday. 
Officers, John McCloskey, W. M. W. H. 
Martin, sec. 

EXCELSIOR LODGE, No. 166- Grand 
Lodge Hall, North Wing, every Wed- 
nesdiy. Officers, R. L.' Bruce, W. M. 
W. Star, sec. 

LINN WOOD LODGE, No. 167—163 
Camp St., every Thursday. Officers, 
Charles A. Scott, "W. M. Hy Able, sec. 

ORUS LODGE, No. 170— Conti. bet. Vil- 
lere and Robertson sts. Officers, L. 
Ilaubtman, W. M. L. Jollisaint, sec. 

KOSMOS LODGE, No. 171— Cor. Com- 
mercial al. and Camp st. 2d and 4th 
ISIondays. Officers, L. P. Heintz, W. M. 
B. Ambruster, sec. 

UNION LODGE, No. 172— Cor. Com- 
mercial al. and Camp St., every Thurs- 
day. Officers, Charles Assenheimer, W. 
M. II. Meistcr, sec. 

ORIENT LODGE, No. 1 7.'?— Grand 
Lodge Hall. cor. St. Charles and Perdido 
sts., eveiy Mondav. Officers, Alfred 
Shaw, W. M. Vincent Mielly, sec. 

DANTE LODGE, No. 174- Cor. Rampart 
and Kerlerec. Every Mondav. Ollicers, 
G. B. Rossi, W. M. S'. Dellini, sec. 



PERFECT HARMONY LODGE, No. 

176— Grand Lodge Hall, North Wing, 
every Monday. Officers, J. O. DeCastro, 
W. M. L. L. Miller, sec. 

CORINTHIAN LODGE, No. 190-163 
Camp St.. 1st Friday of each month. Offi- 
cers, William Carson, W. M. Thomas 

D. Clark, see. 

JEFFERSON LODGE, No. 191— City ot 
Jeft'erson, opp. City Hall, every Friday. 
Officers, George G. Garner, W. M. H. 
P. Phillips, sec. 

MOST EXCELLENT GRAND ROYAL 
ARCH CHAPTER OF THE STATE 
OF LOUISIANA— Officers, for 1871: 
M. E. Girard, M. E. Gr'd H. P. Joseph 
P. Horner, R. E. D. Gr'd H. P. W. R. 
Whittaker, R. E. Gr'd K. William Rob- 
son, R. E. Gr'd S. Hy. R. Swasey, E. 
Gr'd Treas. Jas. C. Batchelor, M. D. R. 

E. Gr'd Sec. Rev. R. S. Trippet, E. Gr'd 
Chaplain. J. H. DeGrange, E. Gr'd 
C. H. H. Hambuiger, E. Gr'd P. S. 
Wm. W. Leake, E. Gr'd. R. A. C. J. 
G. McWilliams, E. Gr'd G. M. 3 Veil. 
John L. Barret, E. Gr'd G. M. 2 Veil. 
James Todd. E. Gr'd G. M. 1. Veil. R. 
S. Burke. E. Gr'd. Guard. John C. 
Gordy, R. E. Gr'd. Lecturer. 

ORLEANS R. A. C, No. 1— Grand Lodge 
Hall, every Monday. Officers, Joseph 
H. Degrange, E. H. P. F. A. Deutzcl, 

sec. 

CONCORD R. A. C, No. 2—163 Camp 
St., every Monday. Richard Lambert, 
E. H. P. Jas. Furneaux, sec. 

PERSEVERANCE, R. A. C, No. 3— Per- 
severance Hall, cor. St. Claude and Du- 
maine sts., 1st Monday in each month. 
Othcers, Rene Lafon deLadebat, E. H. 
P. J. M. Cessac, sec. 

DELTA, R. A. 0. No. 15— Grand Lodge 
Hall, every Thursday. Officers, A. 
Queant, E. H. P. Ilitel Marks, sec. 

POLAR STAR, R. A. C, No. 21— Is.aac 
W. Homan, E. H. P. John S. Barnes. 

sec. 

GRAND COUNCIL ROYAL AND 
SELECT MASTERS— Hugh Green, M. 
P. Gr. Mast. J. P. Horner. P. Dep. Gr. 
Mast. William Robson, T. I. Gr. Mast. 
Amos Kent, G. 1". C. Work. James 
Ray, Gr. C. G. R. Lambert, Gr. Treas. 
Gus Sont.ig, Gr. Rec'r. Rev. Thomas B. 
Lawson, Gr. Chiip. F. W. Delesdernier, 
Gr. Com'r. J. L. Barret. Gr. Stew'd. 
Richard Burk, Gr. Sen'l. 

HOLLAND COUNCIL NO. 1—163 
Camp St. F. Holy laud, T. I. G. M. 
James Ferneaux, Becorder. 

I;OUISIANA COUNCIL, No. 2— G 

Hall. Samuel M. T.dd, T. L G. M. F. 
A. Dentzel, Recorder. 

GRAND COMMANDERY OF 
KNIGHTS OF TEMPLAR AND 
APPENDANT ORDERS OF THE 
STATE OF LOUISIANA— Officers. Sir 
John E. Stevenson, R. E. Gr'd Com'r. Sir 
Richard Laml>ert, V. E. Dep'y Gr. 
Com'r. Sir William R. Whitaker, E. 
Gr. Gencralisirao, Sir Hugh Breeu, E. 
Gr. C. G. Sir H. C. Duncan. E. Gr. 
Prelate. Sir John H. Clark, E. Gr. Sr. 
Warden. Sir W. L. Stanford, E. Gr. 
Jr Warden. Sir Emanuel Blessey, E. 
Treasurer. Sir Gustave Sontag, E. Gr. 
Recorder. Sir Daniel E. Scruggs. E. Gr. 
Standaril Bearer. Sir .lohu A. Peel. E. 
Sword Beaier. St. Charles A. Scott. E. 
Gr. Warder. Sir Haymoiid S. Burk, E. 
Gr. Captain of llic Guards. 



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Grand Lodge Room, Odd Fellows' Hall, 
Officers for 1871^J. R. Walker, M. W. 
G. P. Juies A. Floral, M. E. G. H. P. 
George Jcitter, R. VV. G. S. W. Josiah 
Folger, R. W. G. S. B. da Silva, R. W. 
G. t. Charles C. Neis, R. W. G. J. W. 
A. J. Vandegrlef, R. W. G. R. to the R. 
W. G. L. of the U. S. Frank H. Drake, 
W. G. M. Henry Tiemann, W. G. S. 
M. Fraukford, W. D. G. S. 



Subordinate Encampments. 

WILDEY ENCAMPMENT, No. 1, 
meets the first and third Saturday of 
each month, in Lodge room No. 5, Odd 
FeUows' Hall. 

HOBAH ENCAMPMENT, No. 3, meets 
the second and fourth Saturday in each 
month, in Lodge Room No. 5, Odd Fel- 
lows' Hall. 

WASHINGTON ENCAMPMENT, No. 

6, meets second and fourth Monday iu 
each month, in 3d dist. 

LAFAYETTE ENCAMPMENT, No. 7, 
meets first and third Wednesday, in Jef- 
ferson Hall, cor. Magazine and Philip 
sts., 4th dist. 

CENTRAL ENCAMPMENT, No. 11, 
meets first and third Monday, iu room 
5, Odd Fellows' Hall. 



Interior Encampments. 

DIRECTORS OF THE ODD FELLOWS' 
REST meet iu the office ot the Grand 
Secretary, second Monday iu January 
April, July and October e.ach year, and 
a meeting on the third Monday in Jan- 
uary for the organization of the new 
Board. Officers for 1871 — Benjamin 
Moses, pres.; Josiah Folger, sec; Ste- 
phen Voullemet, treas.; John Quinn, 
sexton. 

GENERAL RELIEF COMMITTEE 

meets the first Friday of each month, in 
the office of the Grand Secretary. Elec- 
tion for president first meeting in Jan- 
uary and July. Officers for 1871 — ^A. 
W. McDonald, pres.; Josiah Folger, sec. 

WIDOWS' AND ORPHANS' GENER- 
AL RELIEF ASSOCIATION.— Dele- 
gates meet in the office of the Grand 
Secretary last Saturday of each month. 
Officers for 1871 — George Nungesser, 
pres.; Josiah Folger, sec. ; A. Wallace 
Hunter, treas. 

MUTUAL AID ASSOCIATION meets 
the fourth Monday of each mouth, iu 
the office of the Grand Seci-etary; elec- 
tion of trustees on the third Tuesday in 
January of each year. Officers for 1871 
— Benjamin Moses, pi'es.; Josiah Folger, 
sec; F. W. Delesdernier, treas. 

ODD FELLOWS' LIBRARY, room over 
the office of the Grand Secretary. 

ODD FELLOWS' HALL ASSOCI- 
TION— Board of Directors meets first 
Monday m each month in the office of 
the Grand Secretary. Election for Di- 
rectors first Monday in May each year. 
Board for 1871 — Edwin M. Rusha, pres. ; 
L. F. Tower, treas.; Frank Pflster, M. 
W. G. M. ; A. Wallace Hunter, Eugene 
P. Brugere, S. E. Moore, Luther Homes, 
George N^ungessor, George W. Roper. 
W. C. Wilson, Jolui G. Dunlap. E. H. 
Fairchild and Howard Millspaugh; Jo- 
siah Folger, sec 



Order of S. W. M., or Heptasophs. 



GRAND CONCLAVE OF LOUISI- 
ANA—THIRD DEGREE. 

This body was iucoriwrated by the 
Legislature, on March 15th, 1854. Meets 
at ^tna Hall, No. 3 Carondelct st. near 
Canal, annually first Monday in January, 
and quarterly, in .lanuary, April, July and 
October. It" is composed of three delegates 
from each and every Conclave under its 
jurisdiction. 

OFFICERS FOR 1871. 
Grand Chief, A. J. Lewis, of Crescent 
Conclave, No. 13. 

Grand Chancellor, V. Grosjean, ol Aurora 
Conclave, No. 14. 

Grand Provost, G. W. SniflF, of ^tna 
Conclave, No. 15. 

Grand Prelate, M. A. Calongne, of Ionia 
Conclave, No. 11. 

Grand Scribe, J. H. Hardy, of Gem Con- 
clave, No. 22. 

Grand Financial Scribe, J. T. Butler, of 
Washington Conclave, No. 20. 

Grand Treasurer, H. P. Walter, of Oliver 
Conclave, No. 16. 

Grand Inspector General, O. S. Babcock, 
of Gem Conclave, No. 22. 

Grand Herald, P. M. Hields, of Algiers 
Conclave, No. 23. 

Grand Guide, G. Well, of Deborah Con- 
clave, No. 25. 

Grand G. of Threshold, D. Spangler, of 
Schiller Conclave, No. 6. 

Grand Sentinel, I. H. Horton, of u^tna 
Conclave, No. 15. 

GRAND EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE 
Meets monthly at 33 Exchange Alley. 

A. J. Lewis, Grand Archon, Chairman* 
V. Grosjean, Grand Chancellor. G. W. 
Sniff, Grand Provost. J. T. Butler, 
Grand Financial Scrihe. H. P. Walter. 
Grand Treasurer. Central Office _ of 
Communication. Box 1360, Post office. 
New Orleaus. 

THE HEPTASOPH, Organ of the Order- 
Lsued on the 15th of every month, by 
the Literary and Printing Association of 
S. W. M., under the supervision of a 
Board of administrators, at New Orleans, 
La. Office, cor. Exchange alley and 
Customhouse st. 

GRAND CONCLAVE FOR THE 
STATE OF LOUISIANA— SIXTH 
DEGREE— This body was incorporated 
by the Legislature, meets quarterly, first 
Monday in January, April, July and 
October, at ^tna Hall, 3 Carondelet st. 
Officers— Wm. Woelper, Grand Chief; 
G. H. Braughn. Grand Chancellor ; T. I. 
Beck, Grand Provost ; Edward Kohnke, 
Grand Scribe ; Jas. T. Butler, Grand 
Financi-al Scribe ; E. Heldingsfeider. 
Grand Treasurer ; B. Ouerato, Grand 
Inspector General ; J. H. Baker, Grand 
Herald; M. A. Calongne, F. Rhode, Grand 
Guide ; J. A. Strasser, Grand G. of 
Threshold. 

SUBORDINATE CONCLAVES IN 
THE STATE. 

GUTTEMBURG, No. 5 (German)— H. C. 
Brehop. M. E. C. ; 1. Speck, chan ; L. 
Schmidt, provost; H. A. Herrlitz, inspec- 
tor general ; E. Benson. H.; I. M. Brann. 
scribe ; A. Werner, treasurer. Meets 



every Friday, cor. Camp and Commer- 
cial al. 

SCHILLER, No. 6 (German)— Jno. Haas, 
M. E. C. ; A. Lieve, chan.; U. Herman, 
provost ; F. Fuhr, ins])ector general ; 
H. Brehof. herald ; H. Aurich, scril)e ; 
D. Spengler, treasurer. Every Mon- 
dav, Tclioupitoulas, nr. Jackson, 4th 
dist. 

SOLON, No. 8 (Spanish)— ,Jos. Barba, 
M. E. C. ; F. Luque, chan. ; M. Arxe, 
provost ; F. D. Alrae. inspector general ; 
LA. Valdez, herald ; F. D. Villasana, 
scribe ; L. P. Santos, treasurer. Meets 
on Wednesday, at 48 St. Louis st. 

WATERMAN, -No. 9— Fied. B. Earhart, 
M. E. Archon ; J. A. Strasser, chan. ; 
H. W. Canney, provost ; E. A. Dueros, 
scribe ; Y. Sambola, treasurer ; Chas. 
H. Schenck, insjiector general ; W. 
Stumpff, herald ; Lewis Lehman, warder. 
Meets at Teutonia Hall, cor. Exchange 
al. and Customhouse St., on the first and 
third Fridays of each month. 

ION A, No. 11 (French)— M. A. Ca- 
longne, M. E. C. ; E. Levy, chan. ; E. A. 
Louis, provost ; M. I. Pons, insj^ector 
general; H. Lecrocq, H. ; G. Barbier, 
scribe ; A. Pons, treas. Sleets at 40 St. 
Louis St., 1st and 3d Friday of each 
month. 

MAGNOLIA, No. 12— Chas. Biill, Ar- 
chon ; A. V. Ward, chan. H. L. Thel- 
berger, provost ; M. C. Murrray, scribe; 
D. E. SuUivan, treas. ; S. M. Terrell, 
financial scribe ; J. E. Jaquet, inspector 
general ; P. Thebould. herald ; Jos. 
Lion, warder ; J. Holskamper, prelate. 
Meets 1st and 3d Fridays in ttie month, 
at cor. Commercial al. and Camp st. 

CRESCENT, No. 13— A. J. Lewis, M. E. 
C; G. CucuUa, chan. ; M. I. Leroy. 
provost ; P. I. Ludwig, insp. gen. ; J. 
Cornelia, H. ; E. Dunn, scribe ; G. 
Leioy jr. treas. Meets 2d and 4th 
Tuesday of each month, in Washington 
HaU, Marigny bldgs. 3d dist. 

AURORA, No. 14— Eugene May, M. E. 
C. ; W. DeLacy, chan. ; L L. Vill.a, 
provost ; W. E. Clark, insp. gen. ; Jas. 
Jackson, H. ; W. W. Schermerhorn, 
scribe ; E. R. May, F. scribe ; W. Math- 
erson, treas. Meets every Saturday 
night, at Tuetonia Hall, cor. Custom- 
ho'use and Exchange al. 

^TNA, No. 15— Geo. W. Sniff, M. E. C. ; 
Geo. Creua, chan.; Charles Richards, 
provost ; J. A. Betat, insp. gen. ; T. H. 
B. Taylor, herald ; T. Taquino, scribe ; 
Macelius Banister, treas. Meets every 
Tuesday night, at No. 3 Carondelet st. 

OLIVER CONCLAVE, No. 16 (German) 
— H. P. Walter, M. E. C, P. Reis, scribe. 
Meets in Temperance Hall. No. 67 Jo- 
sephene street. 4th dist., every Wednes- 
day. 

ALLEN No. 18— F. H. AVilson, M. E. C. ; 
J. T. Carey, chan. ; J. L. Lewis, provost ; 
J. Grasser, insp. gen. : J. P. Nobles, H.; 
J. G. Wire, scribe ; Will Frazer, treas. 
Meets every Thursday, at No. 3 Caron- 
delet St. 

BOEHLER No. 19— Meets cor. Custom- 
house and Exchange al. every Thursday 
night. 

WASHINGTON, No.. 20— Francis M. 
Brooks, M. E. Archon; Emanuel John- 
son, chan ; E. Kohnke, provost ; G. A. 
Stemper. scribe ; John Butler, treas. ; H. 
Millsixiugh, prelate; John W. Tayl<ir, 
insp. geu.; J;imes F. Butler, herald : 



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John Doyle, warder ; P. J. Luchvig, sent. 
Meets every Friday evening, at Wash- 
inu;ton Hall, No. 9 Marigny Building, 
3d dist. 
SOUTHERN, No. 21— C. O. Gerlein. M. 
E. C. ; O. Dalliet, chan. ; J. B. DuO'. 
provost ; P. Godthaux, insp. gen.; N. 
Bnrga, H.; A. Woruer, jr., scribe ; H. 
Sarran, treas. Jlcets every Friday night 
at No. 48 St. Louis st. 

GEJI. No. -22— J. P. Zatarin, M. E. C. ; L. 
I. McNeill, chan. ; O. S. Babcock. provost; 

D. Cronan. jr., insp. gen. ; L. Hermaize, 
scriie; M. Gonibcrt, treas. Meets every 
Mond.ay night, at No. 18 Koyal St. 

ALGIERS, No. 23— W. f. Channing. M. 

E. C. ; P. N. Hicld, chan. ; T. V. AViek- 
laus. provost ; J. A. Keinas, insp. gen.,; 
AV. Bethel. II.; J. J. Pngol, scribe ; E. 
H. Brockman, treas. Meets every Wed- 
nesday in Algiers. 

DEBOR.\H, No. 25— E. Heidingsfelder, 
M. E. C. ; H. Myers, chan ; F. Gimbel, 
provost ; Gns. Weil, insp. gen. ; L. Ben- 
jamin. II.; G. Hnhner, scribe ; D. Kat- 
zcnstein. treas. Meets every Wednesday 
night, cor. Customliouse st. and Ex- 
change al. 

KNICKERBOCKER, No. 26— F. W. 
Weishemicr. M. E. C. Meets in AVash- 
ington Hall, 3d dist. 

SHAKESPEARE. No. 27— G. H. 
Branghn. M. E. C. ; J. G. Campbell, 
chan.; E. F. Lhoste, provost ; T. D. 
Vanliorn, insp. gen. ; J. M. Baldwin, H. ; 
N. C. ForsUiU, scribe ; J. H. CoUius, 
treas. 



Encampments. 



GRAND ENCAMPMENT OF LOUIS- 
L\XA — Meets semi-annually, on the 
first Tuesdav of Slav and November, 
at Gem Hall.'No. 19 Royal st. 

officers: 

Grand Commander — M. A. Calongne, of 
Ionia, No. 5. 

Grand Chancellor — J. Baiha, of Solon, 

No. 2. 
Grand Provost— H. P. Walter, of OU- 

Ter, No. 10. 

Grand Prelate— A. J. Lewis, of Crescent, 
No. 7. 

Grand Scribe — ^V. Grosjean, of St. George, 
No. 8. 

Grand Treasurer — A. Sambola, of "Water- 
man, No. 3. 

Grand Inspector General — E. Fuhr, ol 
Schiller. No. 4. 

Grand Herald— E. Ileadingsfelder, of De- 
borah, No. 11. 

Grand Guide, F. M. Brooks, of Crescent' 

No. 7. 
Grand Warder — J. Metzger, of Solon, 

No. 2. 

SCBOKDINATE ENCAMPMENTS. 

Solon, No. 2— Jfeets at 48 St. Louis St., 
on first AVeihiesday of each month. J. 
Baba, commander, Fernando Giiticrez, 
scribe. 

Waterman. No. .3 — Meets at Teutonia 
Hall, cor. Exchange al. and Custom- 
house St.. on liist Friday of each month. 
F. A. Earhart, commander, E. A. Ducros, 
scribe. 



Schiller, No. 4. Meets at Hall on Tehoupi- 
toulas, bet. Pliilip and .lackson, 4th dist. 
on first and second Mondays. Joseph 
Schindler, commander; H. Aurich, scribe. 

loiia. No. 5— Meets at 48 St. Louis st. on 
first Friday of each month. JI. A. 
Calongne, commander; Gabriel Barbier, 
scribe. 

Crescent, No. 7 — Meets at Washington 
Hall, Jlarigny building. 3d dist, on sec- 
ond Tuesday of each month. C. E. 
Keller, commander ; J. Lefevre, scribe. 

St. George, No. 8- Meets at Teutonia Hall, 
cor. Customhouse and Exchange al.. on 
first and third Saturdays. Eugene May, 
commander ; E. R. May, scribe. 

Oliver, No. 10— Meets at Temperance 
Hall, 07 Josephene St., near Rousseau, 
4th dist. on first Wednesdays. Peter 
Rausch, commander ; H. P. Walter, 
scribe. 

^tna. No. 11— Meets at ^tna Hall, No. 3 
Carondelet St., on first Tuesday of each 
month. J. B. Williams, commander ; 
F. L. Place, scribe. 

Orleans, No. G — Jleets at cor. Commer- 
cial pi. and Camp St., on first and third 
Fridays. M. C. Murray, commander ; 
Charles Brill, scribe. 

Deborah, No. 13— Meets at Teutonia Hall, 
cor. Exchange al. and Customhouse st.. 
on first and tliird Wednesdays. E. Hci- 
dingsfelder, commander ; E. Nesbit, 
scribe. 



Temperance Societies. 

GRAND DIVISION SONS OF TEM- 
PERANCE, meets quarterly in Janu- 
ary, April, Julv and October. S. M. 
Angell, G. W. "P.; Thomas H. .Jones, 
grand scribe, 305 Gravier and P. O. 
Algiers. 

PELCIAN DnaSION, No. 1— Meets 
every Friday evening, over the Bible 
House, 103 Camp st. 

CRIYSTAL FOUNT, No. 4— Jleets 
every Wednesday e\ening. at 163 Camp 
St., over the Bible House. 

HARMONY DIVISION, No. 6— Meets 

evcrv Tuesday evening, Magazine, cor. 

Philip. 
HOPF DITISION, No. 10— Meets every 

Thursday evening, over Bible House, 

103 Camp St. 
LOUISIANA STATE TEMPERANCE 

UNION, (auxilliary to the National 

Temperance Union of New York.)— W. 

W. JIcGarity, pres. 48 Union St., 11. S. 

Bell, rec. sec., 173 Camp St. ; TIios. A. 

Jones, cor. [sec, 305 Gravier St., and 

P. O. Algiers. 



Temple of Honor. 

GRAND TEMI'LR OF LOUISIANA— 
Meet semi-aunuallv. Thomas Keets, 
G. AV. T. ; Thomas Hall, G. AV. R. 

HOAVARD TEJIPLE, No. 2— IMeets 
every AVednesdav evening, in Franklin 
Tenipcrani-e Hall, cor. Riunpart and 
Spain sts.. 3d dist. 

AA^\DSWORITI TEMPLE, No. S— 
Mc('t.s every Monday evening, over 
Bible Mouse', 1G3 Camp'st. 

AVASHINGTON TEMPLE, No. 9.— 



Meets eveiy Fridav evening at the old 
Odd Fellows' Hall, Patterson, bet. 
Lavergne and Verret sts., Algiei-s. 



Knights of Temperance. 

CRESCENT ENCAMPMENT, No. 1— 
Meets every Wednesday evening in Odd 
Fellows' Hall, Camp st. room No. 1. 

ONAVARD ENCAMPMENT, No. 2— 
Meets every Friday evening in Odd Fel- 
lows' Hall, Magazine, cor. Philii) St. 



U. A. 0. D. 

THE GRAND GROVE OF LOUISIANA 
UNITED ANCIENT ORDER OF 
DRUIDS. — fleets in annual session on 
Dec. Sill, and in same annual session on 
the third Monday in May. Otticers— 
John iAI. AViemaiui, N. G. A. ; George B. 
Ebliug, D. G. A. ; Valentine Fuchs, G. 
Sec; John Reich. G. Treas. ; H. Birrch- 
er, G. Mar.; B. Gelder, G. Guard ; F. 
Haag, G. O. Guard. 



Subordinate Groves Under Jurisdiction 
of tiie Grand Grove of Louisiana. 

MAGNOLIA GROVK, No. 1 (Germain- 
Meets first and third Thursdays, cor. 
Customhouse and Exchange al. Ofli- 
cers— P. SelineUer, N. A. ; F. Barckes, 
sec. 

OAK GROVE, No, 2 (German)— IWeet.* 
every first and third Tuesday, at Union 
Hall, cor. Camp and Commercial al. Of- 
ficers — F. A. Knoll, N. A. • F. Buckmann. 

sec. 

GOETHE GROVE, No. 4 (German)— 
Meets every second and fourth) Tuesday, 
cor. Camp and Commercial al. Officers 
— H. GleUers, N. A. ; F. Rohling, sec. 

MISPEL GROVE, No. 6 (Geimau)— 
Jleets at Hermitage Hall, on Tchoupi 
toulas, nr. Jackson every second and 
fourth AVednesday. Officers — Anton 
Braun, N. A. ; George Unger, sec. 

ESPERANZ.A. GROVE, No. 8 (Spanish 
and French) — Meets every first and 
third AA'^ednesday, 49 St. Louis. Offi- 
cers — M. Brisolaro, N. A. M.; M. Sacerdote 
sec. 

MISTLETOE Grove, No. 9 (English) 
— Meets ev(M-y second and fourth I'^iiday, 
cor. Customhouse and Exchange al. Of- 
ficers — M. O. Lawrence, N. A. ; Samuel 
Burns, sec. 

ORIENT GROVE, No. 10 (English)— 
Meets every Thursday, at Hermitage 
Hall, Tchoupitoulas, nr. Jackson. Otfi- 
cers— AV. AVhiteside, N. A. ; C. Engel, 
sec. 

GER.AIANIA GROVE, No. 11— Organ- 
ized April 4, 1869. Meets every 'first 
and third AVednesdav. at 742 Tchonpi- 
loidas. Officers U. Brand, N. A. ; B. 
Mickler, .sec. 

NORMAL SUPREME ARCH CHAP- 
TKH, No. 3. — Meets first and Second 
Monilavs, at Hermitage Hall. Olficer* 
—George H. Pabst, E. S. A.; F. Rohl- 
ing, S. sec. 



Red Men. 

OSYKA TRIBE. No. 1.— Improved 
Order of Red Men. Founded Nov. II. 
1855. Meets every AVednesdaj' evening, 



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at cor. Commercial pi. and Camp. H. 
Clarence, sacliem ; F. Ritter, senior saga- 
more ; R. Mogal, junior sagamore ; 
Charles Ilabeney, chief of records ; P. 
Beclier, keeper of wampum. 



Good Fellows. 

GRAND LODGE OF LOUTST.\NA, 
ANCIENT ORDER OF GOOD FEL- 
LOWS, holds annual meetings in No- 
vember, and special meetings at call of 
Grand Master. Officers B. Planollas, 
Gr. M. A. L. Tissot. Dep. Gr. M. Julien 
Michel, Gr. C. G. Barbien, Gr. Sec. 

LIBERAL LODGE, No. 5, meets at 
Polar Star Hall. St. Louis st., ■2d and 4th 
Tuesdays' of each month. Jose. Planellas, 
W. Gr. Juan Suarez, V. Gr. Felipe 
Gaen, chaplain. Vincente PlaueUas, 
treas. H. Thanui, sec. 



Knights of Pythias. 

GRAND LODGE OF LOUISIANA— 

Meets semi-annually, 3d Monday in Jan- 
uary and July. E. R. Hogan, G. V. P. 
J. M.- G. Parker, G. C. W. F. Dunham, 
V. 6. C. H. Clarence, G. R. and C. 
Scribe. Theo. Guyol, Grand Banker. 
M. H. Niooll, Grand Guide. R. Von 
Stoltzenberg, G. 1. S. L. Lorenz, G. O. S. 

IVANIIOE LODGE, No. 1, meets first 
anil third Mond.ays of each month, at 
yEtna Hall, No. a.Carondelet st. H. C. 
Caulkins, W. C. B. Von Stolzenberg, 
sec. 

LOUISIANA LODGE, No. 1, meets 2d 
and 4th Monday, at 48 St. Louis st. J. 
H. Manuel, V. P. E. J. Sullivan, see. 

TEMPLAR LODGE, No. 3, meets on 
Saturday evenings, at Commercial al., 
cor. Camp. W. M. C. Jones, W. C. T. 
R. Duval, sec. 

BAYARD LODGE, No. 4, meets every 
Wednesday. R. A. Chattborne, W. C. 
E. R. Bocliler, sec. 

^TNA LODGE, No. 5, meets at JEtna 
Hall, No. 3 Carondelet st., every Friday 
evening. J. C. Branick, W. C. Thomas 
Taquino, recording and financial sec. 

CRESCENT LODGE, No. 7, meets every 
Monday in Algiers. Charles HiU, AV. C. 
T. M. Field, sec. 

TEUTONIA, No. 8, meets at ^tna H.all, 
No. 3 Carondelet St., every Saturday 
night. Dr. J. Hentz, W. C. Charles 
Lochbruner, sec. 

LIBERTY, No. 10, meets every Friday 
at Masonic Hall, 6th dist. John Garst- 
kamp, W. C. Charles Jackson, scribe. 

ANDREW JACKSON, No. 11, meets 
every Friday at Odd Fellows' Hall, 3d 
dist. Gustavus Devron, W. C. H. Klein,- 
feller, scribe. 



B. B. G. Y. M. 

LOUISIANA WIGWAM, NO. 1— 

Meets at Odd Fellows' Hall, Marigny 
bldgs. 1st and 3d Monday of each month. 
Chas. E. Retz, chairman. H. Eck, rec. 
sec. G. Brunin, per. sec. 



Benevolent. 

FIREJIEN'S CHARITABLE ASSO- 
CIA'l'ION, No. 1-20 Carondelet— Otli- 
cers— 1. N. Marks, pres. No. 13 0. C. 
Flanagin, sec. No. 13. 



Financial Committee — C. Ilemard, Vigilant 
No. 3, chairman ; E. A. Burke, Missis- 
sippi No. 2 ; Charles T. Howard, La. 
Hose. 

Board of Commissioners — 1. N. Marks, 
chairman, No. 13 ; M. Lardnei-, No. 13 ; 
Frank Rawlc, H & L. No. 4 ; George H. 
Braughn, No. 2; W. H. Manning, 
No. 12. 

General Relief Committee — John Fitz- 
patrick. No. 13, chairman. 

Widows' and Orphans' Committee — Philip 
Hott'man, No. 5, chairman. 

(Cemetery Committee — John McCaffrey, 
No. 6, chairman; John Quinn, sexton. 

Fifth dist. (Algiers) Thomas H. Jones, 
pres. No. 1; L. Peterson, sec. No. 2. 

BENEVOLENT ASSOCIATION OF 
THE SONS OF LOUISIANA— Meets 
1st Sunday of each month, at Stonewall 
Jackson Hall, F. J. Levis, 247 Burgun- 
dy, pres.. L. J. Courtin, sec. 

CLERKS' BENEVOLENT ASSOCIA- 
TION OF LA.— Meets every Tliursday 
at 8 p. m. 17 Royal. O. S. Babcock, 
pres.; D. H. Buckley, sec. 

FRENCH BENEVOLENT, ASSOCIA- 
TION— T. Girod, pres., St. Ann, bet. 
Roman and Derbigny. 

GERMAN ASSOCIATION, 1st dist— 
Meets Drj'ades, cor. Lafayette, on the 
2d Siuiday of each month. H. Paul, 
pres.; J. Baumann, rec. sec. 

GERMAN ASSOCIATION, 2d dist— 

Meets 51 Beinville, Coliseum Hall, 

Valentiiie Fuchs, pres.; Franz Ritter, 
rec. sec. 

GERMAN EMIGRANT AID SOCI- 
ETY— Oflice, 10 St. Peter. William de 
la Roue, pres. ; L. Schwartz, rec. sec. ; 
Charles Becker, manager. 

GERMAN MECHANIC'S ASSOCIA- 
TION— 4th dist F. Lauer, pres.; J. 

Frischhertz, sec. 

GERMAN BROTHERHOOD (United 
Brethren) — Meets at Fianklin Temper- 
ance Hall. Adolph Smith, pres.; Bern- 
hard, Mucklcr, sec. 

GERMAN WORKINGMEN'S -ASSO- 
CIATION— Meets 303 Bayou rd., every 
Sunday. R. E. Kurfurst, pres.; A 
Weisborn, sec. 

GREEK AND SLAVONIC ASSOCIA- 
TION— P. N. Benachi, sec. No. 2 Cai'- 
ondelet, 3d floor. 

HIBERNIAN BENEVOLENT ASSO- 
CIATION, Board of Delegates — John 
McPholin, pres. ; H. H. Ward, sec. ; 
Philip McCabe, treas. 

No. 1 — Meets first Monday of each month 
at 120 Carondelet st. John McCaflrey, 
83 Boliver st, 1st dist, pres. ; Thomas 
Rice, rec. sec. 139 Magazine st. 

No. 2 — Meets first Thursday of each month 
at schoolhousc on Marigny st., bet. Royal 
and Dauphine sts. R. H. Bartley, pres. ; 
P. Marti, sec. 

No. 3 — Meets on first Tuesday of each 
month at St. Joseph-s Hall, Common, 
cor. Derbigny st. Philip McCabe, 100 
Camp, pres.; P. J. Hackett, rec. sec. 

No. 4 — Meets on first Wednesday of each 
month at St. John's schooUiouse, Dry- 
ades St. in'. Clio. M. AVlielalian, pres. ; 
John C. Muriay, sec, Picaijune Olliee. 

No. 5 — Meets on first Tuesdaj' of each 
mouth on Erato st. nr. Cauip B. E. 



Diamond, pres. 89 Felicity; M. Houla- 
han, sec. 65 Constance. 

No. 6 — Meets on second Thursday of each 
month at Temperance Hall, Josephine 
St. nr. Rousseau. H. H. Wai'd, sec. 

nOAVARD BENEVOLENT ASSOCIA- 
TION— Office, 58 Camp st. E. F. 
Schmidt pres. ; John P. Caldwell, sec. 

ITALIAN SOCIETY— "Tiro-al-Bersag- 
lio." Meets 18 Royal st. Chartered 
March 10, 1809. Civil Ollicers : G. Min- 
ere, pres. protem ; C. Remili, vice-pies.; 
J. S. Tredo, sec. Military Officers : 
J. Delda Valle, captain ; A. Sidoti, 1st 
lieut 

JACKSON BENEVOLENT ASSOCIA- 
TION — Meets at Franklin Temperance 
Hall, Rampart cor. Spain St., on tlie first 
Tussday ot each month, at 7 p. m. C. 
Molchor, pres. Peter, bet. IMontegut and 
Ferdinand sts., John Fitzvvilliam, per. 
sec, St. Claude, bet. Manuel and Spain. 

LAFOURCHE AND BAYOU SARA 
PILOTS' BENEVOLENT ASSOCIA- 
TION — Emile F. Gross, pres. ; Ernest 
Riviere, sec. ; E. Charlet, treas. Hall, 
Toulouse, cor. Bourbon st. 

LOUISIANA BENEVOLENT ASSO- 
CIATION— Meets at Wollrich's Hall, 
357 Decatur, 3d dist., on the third Sun- 
dav of each month. John Strobel, pres.. 
Union, cor. Solidelle st. ; L. Ackerman, 
rec. sec, Elysian Fields, bet. Prosper and 
Claiborne sts. ; Peter Siebert, treas., 60 
Urquhart St. 

LOUISIANA DRAYMEN'S ASSOCIA- 
TION (German) — Meets- at Association 
Hall, on the first Sund.ay of each month. 
George Eschbacher, pres.; Clemens Hu- 
ner, rec. sec. 59 Exchange pi. 

LUTHERAN BENEVOLENT SOCI- 
ETY (colored) — James Haywood, priu. 
directoi, 318 Gravier st. 

NEW LUSITANOS BENEVOLENT 
ASSOCIATION OF NEAV OR- 
LEANS— Hall on Old Levee, bet. Ursu- 
lines and St. Philip sts. Founded and in- 
coi-porated Sept 12th, 1858. 600 members. 
The aft'airs of this association are under 
the control and supervision of a board of 
administrators, which meets on the first 
Thiu-sday of each month. General 
meetings are held on the third Monday 
of January, April, July and October. 

The Tomb of this society, containing 100 
vaults, is situated in Girod Street Ceme- 
tery — Officers, V. Camugl, pres. Fee Ri- 
poll, 1st vi(!e-pres. ; A. A. Marchand, sec. 
A. Sambola, treas. ; R. V . Relimpio, 
asst: treas. ; Dr. .1. J. Castellanos, physi- 
cian ; J. P. Grossir, collector, Charles 
Leon, grand marshal. 

NEW ORLEANS RIFLE CLUB, meets 
at Magnolia Garden, Bayou bridge, ev- 
ery Sunday morning. E. J. Wenck, 
pres., 3 St. Claries st. L. Moses, sec. 

NEW ORLEANS TURNER ASSOCIA- 
TION, meets every Tuesday and Thurs- 
day, at Turner Hail, Lafayette, cor. Dry- 
ades. L. Mieg, 1st speaker ; W. M. De. 
bus, speaker. 

ORLEANS DRAMATIC RELIEF AS- 
SOCIATION.— 3* Carondelet st C. F. 
Buck, pres.; E. M. Stella, sec. 

RED RIVER PILOTS' BENEVOLENT 
ASSOCI.VTION— Offices and rooms, 25 
St. Charles, nr. Canal st J. H. Lewis, 
pres.; .lohu A. Mouchon, sec. and treas. 
Meetings first Tuesday of each month. 

STEAMBOAT CAPTAINS' UNION 
BENEVOLENT ASSOCIATION— Of- 



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fii'es and rooms. 9 Delta, nr. Canal St. 
John E. Hyde, pies.; C. T. Reader, sec. 

SWISS RIFLE CLUB— M. Winteler, 
pres., 142 Podras St., ; R. Hirzel, sec. 
Gravierst. Meetina: the first Saturday 
in each month, 51 Beiiivllle. 

SWISS BEXEVOLEXT ASSOCIA- 

XION— M. Wintella, pres.; C. F. Pelot, 
vioe-pres.; George Father, treas. ; A. 
Haggman, sec. 

TRIXITY BENEVOLENT ASSOCIA- 
TION— J. W. Norris, pros.; iT Canal 
St.; H. W. Ogdeu, vice-pres. 69 Camp 
St.; Charles Brenff, sec; Eug. G. Meslier, 
treas. 

WASHINGTON ARTILLERY ASSO- 
CIATION— Aleets third Tuesday in 
each month, at Hawkins' Cluh Rooms, 
182 Common St., J. B. Walton, pres., 
102 Common St.; Louis A. Adam, sec. ; 
W. J. Behan, treas. 

WASHINGTON BENEVOLENT AS- 
SOCIATION— Meets at Franklin Tem- 
perance Hall, Spain, cor. Rampart St., 
on the, first Jlonday of each mouth, at 
ll p. m. Joseph Armbruxer, pres. ; 
John SchneidmuUer, 1st vice-pres. ; 
George Frank. 2d vice-pres. ; H. Klein- 
feller, cor. sec; H. Hwischild, financial 
sec; Balthasar Kerner, treas. 

YOUNG MENS' BENEVOLENT AS- 
SOCIATION— Meets first Monday of 
each month. Customhouse St., ne. oor. 
Exchange pi. Geo. H. Biaughn, pres. ; 
C. Strobel, rec sec. 89 Camp st. 
YOUNG MENS'S CATHOLIC FRIENDS 
SOCIETY— D. A. MuUaue, pres. ; D. T. 
Cummings, sec. 
YOUNG MENS' CHRISTIAN ASSO- 
CIATION—A. H. Brown, pres-; J. Tal- 
bot Sauyer, cor. sec; Robt. Gribble, rec 
sec. W. H. Foster, treas. ; W. H. Barre- 
more, librarian, 82 Camp. 
YOUNG MENS' CRESCENT AND 
STAR BENEVOLENT ASSOCIA- 
XION— Meets on the first Sunday of eve- 
rv month, at 12 o'clock, m.. at ^tna Hall, 
3'Carondelet st. Otficers— Wm. E. Fitzger- 
ald, pres. Henrv Messonier, 1st vice-pres.; 
John G. Guerin, 2d vice-pres. ; Louis 
Harden, sec ; P. N. Benachi, treas. 
Louis Kuntz, marshal. 
SOCIETE ALSACIENNE ET LOR- 
RAINE DE BIENFAISANCE ET 
D' ASSISTANCE MUTUELLE DE 
LA NOUVELLE ORLEANS— J. 
Lorber, pres.; John Ramstein, sec. 252 
Cliartres ; C. Duvic, treas. Sleets Per- 
fect Union Hall, Rampart St., bet. Du- 
maine and St. Philip sts., on the first 
Monday of each month. 
SOCIETE FRANCAISE de BIEN- 
FAISANCE et d' ASSISTANCE MU- 
TUELLE— Hall and Asylum, ws. St. 
Ann, bet. Roman and Derbigny. Ad- 
ministration. J. Girod, pres.. res. 72 Du- 
maine. Committee on Help — J. Le- 
blanc, res. 255 Old Levee ; A. Barbier, 
sec res. 342 Robertson ; P. J. Chabert, 
col., res. 345 Chai-tres ; J. Tonatre, phy- 
sician les. 342 Dumaine. Tomb in St. 
Louis Cemetery. No. 1. 
ST. VERONKJUE BENEVOLENT SO- 
CIETY (colord female)- 21(5 Kerlerec 

SOCIETY ITALIANA di MUTUA 
BENEKICENZA in NUOVA OR- 
LEANS (llaliau)— Hall. St. Louis St., 
ur. Levee. G. Massa. act. pres., res. UU 
Old Levee. E. Troise. sec. res. Cliartres, 
cor. Jerterson ; J. B. Solari. treas. 

TIDAL WAVE CLUB— T. H. Farrcll, 
pres.; W. M. Hicks, sec, 17 Royal. 



UNITED BROTHERS BENEVOLENT 
ASSOCIATION— Temperance Hall. 

Rampart, cor. Spain. Louis Leonhardt. 
pics., Dauphine, cor. Calliope ; Aug. 
Freschper, sec. Chartres, cor. Congress. 



Social, Literary and Dramatic. 

BOSTON CLUB— 4 Caiondclet, Gen. R. 

Taylor, pres.; W. Bell, sec 
CHALMETTE CLUB— Rooms, Caronde- 

let, cor. Canal. John M. Witherspoon, 

pres. ; L. C. Lawtou. sec 

CLERKS' BENEVOLENT ASSO- 

CIATION OF LOUISIANA— Meets 
every Thursday. 8 p. m., at the room, 3 
Carondelet. 6. S. Babcock. pres. ; E. 
A. Louis, sec. 

GERMANIA CLUB— Rooms, Custom- 
house, cor. Ro^al st. Charles Potthoft', 
pres.; Charles Engstfcnd, vice pres. ; E. 
IJerje, sec; Frank Oberheuser, treas. 

MINERVA SOCIAL CLUB— 67 Jose- 
phine. 

NEW ORLEANS CONSERVATORY 
OF MUSIC— T. Masac, pies.; 90 
Baronue. 

PICKWICK CLUB— Rooms, 6 Exchange 
pi. T. C. Herndon. ot Star Cotton Press, 
pres.; E. A. Barker, 11 Magazine, sec. 

SHAKESPEARE CLUB— Meets at their 
rooms, 107 St. Charles. George H. 
Biaughn, pres.; Numa Forstall, sec. 

VARIETIES CLUB— Composed of stock- 
holders of the Vai-ieties Theatre- 
Rooms, Varieties Theatre. T. M. Sim- 
mons, pres.; John Crickard, see. and 
treas. 

OPERA ASSOCIATION— House, Bour- 
bon, cor. Toulouse st. John G. Gaines, 
pres.; Emiie Wiltz, sec. and treas. 

Governing Ccmmittee— John G. Gaines, 
Augustus Reichard, Henry Frellsen. 

ST. ALOYSIUS LITERARY ASSO- 
CIATION— Meets every Thursday 
evening, at the schoolhonse, on Marais 
St., nr. t'ommon. J. J. Finney, pres. 
and treas.; John T. Markey, rec sec. 

CRESCENT CITY YACHT CLUB— 
Rooms, 189 Common St. J. O. Nixon, 
commodore ; H. Rareshide, 1st vice com- 
modore ; S. W. Scott, treas.; AV. T. Per- 
ry, sec. 

MECHANICS' INSTITUTE, Est. 1806— 
Dryades, bet. Canal and Common. John 
Mclntyre, pros. ; 120 Carondelet ; Luther 
Homes, rec. sec, 15 Dryades. 

MECHANICS' AND AGRICUI^ 

TURAL FAIR ASSOCIATION OF 
LOUISIANA— Officers and members are 
elected to serve from Mav, 1871, to May, 
1872: I. N. Marks, pres.; N. E. Bailey. 
1st vice-pres.; James Jackson, 2d vice- 
pres.; C. H. Slocomb, 3d vice-pres.; John 
Davidson, W. B. Schmidt. E. M. Rusha. 
G. A. Breaux, Charles J. Leeds, A. W. 
Merriam, E. A. Tyler, Wm Mc- 
Culloih, Willamson Smith, Lafayette 
Folger, A. U. Fortier, G. W. Dunbar, 
W. A. Shropshire, J. L. Guberiiator, 
Geo. G. Garner, Jos. L. Harris, and R. 
G. Musgrove. OtH<-es. Mechanics' Hall, 
Dryades st. Tlie animal lair is held at 
the Fair grounds in .April. The grounds 
are always open to visitors. 

MECHANICS' AND DEALERS' EX- 
CHANGE ASSOCIATION— .51 St. 
Charles. R. Roberts, pres.; 391 Gra- 



vier; F. Wing, treas.; W. M. Grant, 
sec, Delord, cor. Rampart. 

MEDICAL ASSOCIATION OF NEW 
ORLEANS— University Building, Prof. 
Warren Stone, M. D.. pres., 314 Canal; 
C. H. Tebault, M. D., sec, 496 Ba- 
ronue. 

NEW ORLEANS COTTON SHIP- 
PERS' ASSOCIATION— A . T. Elliot, 
pres.; Edw. A. O'Brien, sec. and treas. 

NEW ORLEANS TYPOGRAPHICAL 
UNION, No. 17— Meets first Sunday 
of each month, at Louisiana Hose Cos. 
"Hall. John C. Murray, pres., Picauune 
office; P. A. Vanderdoes, rec sec, Titncs 
office. 

SHOO FLY CLUB— Rooms, ^tna Halh 
3 Carondelet. 3d floor. Alfred Meilleur, 
pres. , W. E. Fitzgerald sec, 2 Caronde- 
let; P. N. Benachi, treas., 14 Union. 
Strictly social and private club. 

TEXAN CLUB— Rooms, cor. Camp and 
Common. 

YOUNG BACHELORS' SOCIAL CLUB— 

116 Carondelet. 

TURN GEMEINDE OF N. O.— Hall, 
Dryades. cor. Lafa\ette. L. >Iieg, 
pres.; W. Debus, rec. sec; B. Keuss. 
cor. sec. ; S. Schmidt, treas., H. Spiring, 
turn war.; John Reheege. asst. turn war.; 
C. Stohl, librarian. Meets twice each 
month, on Wednesdays. 

TURNER SCHUTZEN (German Ri- 
fles)— Meets Turn Halle, cor. Lafayette 
and Dryade-. every Monda)'. H. Loga, 
capt.; J. Koch, first lieut.; Frank Huss, 
first sergt.. 229 Rampart. 

LOUISIANA GEWERBE VEREIN— 

Meets every 2d Thursday at their hall, 
St. Philip, cor. St. Claude. Herbert 
Wax. pres.; Henry German, treas., M. 
Schulz, sec; Urban Theurer. fin'l sec; 
Dr. A. de Blanc, physician, 15 Dau- 
phine street; Balthasar "Mer z. first halle 
ward.; Edward Clans, second halle ward. 

WASHINGTON TERPSICHOREAN 

PHILHARMONIC ASSOCIATION 

— lohii H. O'Dowd, pres.; J. F. Markey, 
vice-pres. ; G. J. Pritchard, sec. ; P. F. 
C Lille V, treas. 



Places of Amusement. 

SHAKESPEARE CLUB, 107 Story Build- 
iuii. (Iron front), se. cor. Camp and 
Common. 

ACADEJIY OF MUSIC, David Bidwell, 
proprietor and manager, es. St. Charles, 
bet. Commercial pi. and Poydras. 

NATIONAL THEATRE, (German) Perdi- 
do, from Baronue to Carrol st. Oscar 
Gutman, manager. 

NATIONAL HALL. Davis & Jackson, 
jiroprietors, S. Poydras, bet. Fi'anklin and 
Liberty. 

OPERA HOUSE. ASSOCIATION BUILD- 
ING, Bourbon, sw. cor. ot Toulouse. 

ST. CHARLES THEATRE. Benedict Do- 
Bar, proprietor and manager, es. St. 
Charles, bet. Podras st. and Academy 
of Music. 

VARIETIES THEATRE, Lawrence Bar- 
rett, director. Lorain Rogers, business 
inaiiager. Front on Canal, bet. Dauphine 
and Buigundy. 

MUSEUM OF ANATOMY AND PHYSI- 
OLOGY, University Buidnig, lorthe ini)ec- 
tion of students and the laculty. 



strangers' Gmde and Business Directory. 



Public Squares.- 

ANNUNCIATION SQUARE, Annuncia- 
tion, (Jhippewa, Race and Orange, 1st (list. 

CLAY SQUARE, Chippewa Annuciatiou, 

3d and 4th sts. 1st dist. 

COLLISIUM SQUARE, junction of Camp. 
E. aiidCollisium VV. bet. Melpome, ne. and 
Euterpe, 1st Uist. 

CONGO SQUARE, or Place d'Arms, Ram- 
part. E. St. Peters S. St. Claude, VV. and 
St. Ann, N. 2d dist. 

DOUGL.\S SQUARE, bounded by Third 
Wasliington, Howard and Freret, 4th dist. 

FREDERIC 'S SQUARE, bounded by 
Fitteentlr, Hamilton. Edingburg and Lau- 
rel Grove, Carr.iliton. 

INDEPENDENCE SQUARE, bounded by 
Uiquhart, Robertson, Spain and Music, 
3d dist. 

JACKSON SQUARE, bounded by Decatur, 
St. Peter, Chartres and St. Ann, 2d dist. 

LAFAYETTE SQUARE, bounded by 
Camp S. St. Charles and North sts. 1st 
dist. 

ST. ANTHONY SQUARE, bounded by 
St. Louis Passengers N. and S. by Royal 
W. and bj' St. Louis Cathedral, E. 2d 
dist. 

TIVOLI CIRCLE, St. Charles and Delord, 
1st dist. 

WASHINGTON SQUARE, bounded by 
Elysian Fields, N. Royal. E. Frenchman 
S. and Dauphine W. 3d dist. 

TULANE BUILDING. iron,w.s. Camp, bet. 
Gravier and Common. 

TOURO ALMS HOUSE, (Ruins) Levee, ab. 
Bai-racks. 

UNION LEE CLUB, 32 Royal. 

U. S. POST OFFICE, Customhouse Build- 
ing. Ladies delivery, -^i] door from Canal 
on Decatur. General delivery and boxes 
from 3d door to centre. Newspaper De- 
partment, Centre of west Iront. 

U. S. (Jackson) BARRACKS, Gen. Alfred 
Sully, Lieut-comd'g. Front Levee cor. 
Dellery. 

UNIVERSITY OF LOUISIANA. 

Common, bet. Dryadesand Baronne. Hon. 
Randall Hunt, LLD., President. 

ADMI^MSTRATOR?, EX-OKKicio. — His Ex- 
cellency. H. C. Warmoth, Governor of 
Louisiana : Hon. John T. Ludelina;, 
Chief .Justice of Louisiana ; Hon. John 
Isley, Hon. P. H. Morgan, J. Q. A. 
Fellows, George S. Lacey, Newton 
Riehai-ds, B. H. Moss, M. D., Thomas 
Sloo, Hon. Ed. Rawle. 

Meuicai, Faculty — A. H. Cenas, M. D., 
emeritus professor of obstretrics and dis- 
e:ises of woman and children ; James 
Jones, M. D„ professor of obstretrics and 
diseases of women and children ; Warren 
Stone, M. D., pi-otessor of surgery ; T. 
G. Richaidsou, M. D., professor of anat- 
omy, and dean of the faculty ; Samuel 
M. Bemiss, M. D., professor of the theo- 
ry and practice of medicine ; .Stanford 
E. Chaille, M. D. professor of physiol- 
ogy and pathological anatomy ; Frank 
Hawthorn. M. D., prolessor of materia 
mediia and thercpeutics ; Joseph Jones, 
M. D. (late of the University of Nash- 
ville), prolessor of Chemistry ; C. J. 
Bickman. M. D., demonstrator of anat- 
omy ; E. Souchon. M. D. John M. Cul- 
len, assistant demonstrators. 



Law Department.— Hon. Randall Hunt, 
JiLD., professor of commercial and crim- 
inal law ; the law of evidence and in- 
surance. Christian Roselius, LLD., 
pi-ofessor of civil law and practice ; the 
jurisprudence of Louisiana and the land 
laws of the United States. Hon. Carle- 
ton Hunt, professor of admiralty ami 
maritime law. and of International law. 
Chri-tian Roselius, LLD, dean of tht 
faculty. Thomas A. Clark, professor 
of common law. 

STRAIGHT UNIVERSITY, Esplanade. cor. 
Derbigny st. Established 18U9. Rev J. 
W. Healey, AM., pi-es., assisted by a full 
corps of professors and teachers, "in the 
collegiate, normal, medical and theologi- 
cal dep.artments. 

WASHINGTON HALL, (odd fellows') 8 
Marigny Building. 

WASHINGTON,— Painting of— on Horse- 
back. Mayors' office, City HaU. 



Warehouses. 



Alabama Warehouse, Marshal J. Smith, 
& Co., proprs., Delord, bet. Clara and 
Willow. 

Batture Warehouse, Girod, bst. Front and 
Delta. 

Blessey Warehouse. Julia, sw. cor. Locust. 
Boston Warehouse. H. M. Isaackson & Co., 
proprs., ns. Julia, bet. Magazine and 
Tchoupitoulas. 

Bidl's Head Tobacco Warehouse, Tchoup- 
itoulas, bet. Nuns and Celeste. 

Chandler's Warehouse, Water, bet. Philip 
and Saraparu. 

Commercial Warehouse, 

ette. 



57 and 59 Lafay- 
Harrison, propr.. 



Delta Warehouse, W. C. 
81 to 85 Front. 



Eagle Warehouse, P. M. Tourne, propr., 
64 Notre Dame. 

Fulton Warehouse, Fulton, bet. Delord 
and South Market. 

Gre.at Western Warehouse, Constance, cor. 
Julia. 

Gretna Warehouse. Gretna. 

Hariison, Warehouse, Fulton, bet. Girod 
and Lafayette. 

Homes Inspection Warehouse, John 
Homes & Co., jiroprs., 157 to 107 Tchoupi- 
toulas. 

Home Warehouse, 57 to 67 Fulton. 

Hunter Street Tobacco Warehouse, 
Tchoupitoulas, cor. Hunter. 

India Warehouse, 143 and 145 Tchoupi- 
toulas. 

Iron Warehouse, bet. Fulton and Peters, 
Julia and St. Joseph. 

Kentucky Tobacco Warehouse, Peters, 
bet. Gaiennie and Erato. 

Lafayette Warehouse, A. A. Maginnis, 
propr., 107 Magazine. 

Liverpool Warehouse. 61 Peters, nw. cor. 
Montegut. R. Y. Chamburg, propr. 

Merchants' Warehouse, and Bonded Yard 
Gretna ; otiice, 49 Carondelet. 



Mississippi Warehouse, Front, bet. Julia 
and St. Joseph. 

Montgomery Warehouse, Peters, bet. Ful- 
ton and St. Joseph. 

Paragon Warehouse, J. R. Kane, propr. 
121 Fulton. 

Pelican Bonded Warehouse, P. M. Tourne, 
propr., 60 to 56 Girod. 

Rio Warehouse, P. M. Tourne, propr., 

Tchoupitoidas, sw. cor. Notre Dame. 

Rondeau Warehouse, Magazine, cor. Julia. 

Sherifl's Warehouse, 74 St. Ann. 

St. Louis Warehouse, Knower & Walden, 
propr., Fulton, bet. Gn-od and Lalay- 
ette. 

St.ar Warehouse, Wm. A. S. Rondeau, 
propr.. Commerce, cor. Notre Dame. 

State Warehouse, Magazine, bet. Girod 
and Julia. 

Tobacco Internal Revenue Warehouse, 
B. F. Flanders, propr., Julia, cor. Con- 
stance. 

Tunnard Warehouse, Delord, sw. cor. 
Clara. 

Uncle Sam AVarehouse, (closed), 158 to 164 
Peters, 1st dist. 

Union Warehouse, John Holmes & Co., 
proprs., 128 Tchoupitoulas st. 

Virginia Warehouse (closed), St. Peters, 
cor. Race. 

W.abash Warehouse, (closed), 75 and 77 
Fulton St. 

Whitehead Warehouse, bet. .Tulia and 
Notre Dame, New Levee and Fulton. 



Wharfingers and Ex-OfTlcio Collectors 
of Levee Dues. 

1st dist. C. A. Waldo. 2d dist. A. H. Mc- 
Arthur. 3d dist. A. B. Chace. 4th dist. 
J. G. Chadwich. 



WHARVES, LANDINGS, FERRIES. 

DIVISION OF WIIARVICS. 

The wharves of the city of New Orleans 
are divided into twelve sections, as fol- 
lows: 

First Municipal District, three sections — 

Nos. 1, 2 and 3. 
Second Muuicip.al District, three section.s^ 

Nos. 4, 5 and 6. 

Third Municipal Districts, three sections — 
Nos. 7, 8 and 9. 

Foin-th Municipal District, three sections — 
Nos. 10, 11 and 12. 



Landings. 



FIRST SECTION— 1st district. 

Steamboat Landing — From Canal st. Ferry 
landing to the upper line of Notre Dame. 

SECOND SECTION— 1st district. 

Steamship, Barge, Flatboat and Coalboat 
I.Mnding — From Notre Dame st. to 
Thalia. 

THIRD SECTION— 1st district. 

Sea-goin? Ves.sels and Coalboats of N. O. 
Gas Ijight Co. — From Thalia st. to upper 
limits of 1st dist. (Felicity rd.) 



ADYERTISEMENTS. 



PHILIP W IRLEIN'S 



lit 






WARE-ROOMS, 




We occupy almost one half of an entire block frontage. Our stock consists of the Largest Collection 
of First=class Tianos, Square and Upright, Comprising Weber's, Duilliaill's, Hale's, Zeigler's, 

Mallmsliek & Colibri's, Grovestein's, Pleyel's, Etc., Etc., which will sell for cash at low 

prices, and on monthly payments, if preferred, with full guarantee. 



Our stock consists in J^eedham's WorkUrenowned Organs, which are the best manufactured, and 
sold at prices not higher than those of many inferior Organs. 



Whoever purchases a (Piano or Organ imthout first calling on or writing to tis, for our prices and 
terms, acts without reasonable prudence and care. 



We have Secontl-liaiid Pianos guaranteed at $125 to $225. New Pianos, a 

dozen different grades in price, from $290 to $000. 

PHILIP WERLEIN. 



[um'i juim'lBmnidi Insurance Factor's & Trader's 



No. UCarondelet St., New Orleans, La. 
(CAPITAL, $500,000.) 



TBtim ^^\wt'a& S'rapMMMJSfT', 



ST-A.XE]VCE2SrX. 

Premiums for the year ending 3lst August, 1872. 
On Fire Risks, . - . - $15->.-207 75 
On Marine Risks, ... - 23.819 90 
On River Risks, 62,722 33 



Ke-insurances, Taxes, etc,. 

Losses paid during the year: 
On Fire Risks. - ... $ 52.017 61 
On Marine Risks. - - - - 18.116 07 
On River Risks, 15.555 99 

Re-insuranoes and Rebate, . $ 27,168 41 
*rases and General Expenses less 

interest, and Contingent Fund, 6.998 88 



Reserved for unadjusted losses, 
Net Profits on past years business. 
The Company have the following 

ASSETS: 

Stock Notes 

Bills Receivable for premiums and for 

Loans secured by pledge, .... 

Insurance Script 

Premiums in course of collection. . 

Cash on hand 

Invested in Bank. Insurance and other 

Stocks. Bonds, etc., cost. 

Total, . . ■ . 



$238,749 i 
$132,256 I 



$ 34,167 : 
12,400 I 
61,314 I 



$303,182 I 
178,978 : 



STATE OF LOUISIANA. I 
City of New Orleans. I 
The Board of Trustees declared the following 
l)rofits, to-wit: 
Interest on paid in Capital, Ten per cent! 
Dividend on paid in Capital, Nine per cent!! 
Dividend on earned Premium. Twenty-four p. 



TJaXTSOTEES. 



C. W. Alien, J. E. CampbeU, 

A. J. Aiken, Lucien J. Doize, 

J. A. Braselman, Fred Ernest, 
"W. T. Blakemore, Ben. Geraou, 



J. A. Lane, 
Robert L. Moore, 
John Myers. 
T. S. Waterman, 
H. J. MuUau, 
Edward Kalle, 



I. Bloom. C. A Green, 

C. H. C. Brown, J. I. Dunuier. 

Louis A. WiJtz, Lloyd R. Coleman, Edward C. Payne, 

Samuel Boyd, I. L. Haas, G. W. SeuteU. 

John D. Cobb. T. H. Hunt. W. B. Thompson, 

Geo. W. Church. Jas. S. Lanphier, Fred. Wing, 
J. Davidson HiU, C. W. Wood. 



EDWAED LILIEITHIt, 

DEALER IN FINE 

Watctie^, jiamond^. Jewelry, 

SILVER &. SILVER-PLATED WARE, 

"Watches and Jewelry C*R^fully 

J^EPAiRED. Diamonds J^e-set in 

Xhe Latest gTYLES. 

^LL "W^ORK pULLY QuAKANTEED. 
.-4-i»>*-. 

Agents for tie Celebrated Diamond Specks. 



111 GRAVIER STREET. 

Insures against Fire, IVIarine and River 
Risks, at Lowest Tariff Rates, 

A. EIMER BADER, President. 

CHAS. ENGSTFELD, Vice President. 
GEO. STROMEYER, Secretary. 



First fiscal year; ] 
Fire, marine and 
Re-iu's, Rebates, 



Total amount of assets 

Declared: Interest o 

Dividend 

Dividend 



d. $187,125 T'2 

losses paid, $84,647 69 

., etc., 49,353 85—134.001 54 

$53,124 18 
$794,919 18 
1 capital paid in 10 per cent, 
in capital paid in 8 per cent, 
m premiums paid 16 per cent. 



TPIXJSTEES. 



Henry Abraham, 

Louis Schneider, 

Jos. Keller, 

N. A. Banmgarden, 

R. Sieg, 

C. H. Miller, 

H. Eicke, 

.J. M. Schwartz, 

H. Pohlmann. 

M. Frank, 

X.Weisseuback, 

F. Roder, 



S. Katz, 

A. Eimer Bader, 
W. B. Schmidt, 
Theo. Lilienthal, 

E. F. DelBondio, 
Isaac Scherck, 

S. L. Nasits, 
Chas. Engstfeld, 
Louis Sch^arz, 

F. Rickert, 

H. R. Gogreve, 
J. R. WUdermann, 



Mutual Insurance 

o o M r» -A. 3sr ■K- . 



61 CAMP ST., cor. Commercial Alley. 
Paid up Capital, $500,000. 

Assets at their Cash Value, . . $559,000.00 
Dividends on Participating Premiums for 1872, 

so FER. CEISIT. CA-SK. 

Dividends on Stock lO Per Cent. 



This old and reliable Company are issuing 
Policies on Fire, River, and Marine risks 
at the lowest rates. All losses promptly 
adjusted and settled, upon the most favor- 
able terms. 

JAMES I. DAY, Pres. 

HORACE CARPENTER. Sec. 



John's Restaurant, 

3S!liW ORLK.A.NS. 

JOHN STRENNA, Proprietop. 

Every delicacy of the season served in the 
most elegant style and the finest Wines and 
Liquors constantly on hand. 



Insvir^noe Oo. 



l^EV7 OE,X.E!,A.lSrS. 



xVo. 37 CARONDELET STREET. 



IxeQEPQBATED iX iBGl!, 



CASH CAPITAL. 



$1,000,000. 



Assets, April, 50. 1872, $1,585,241.86 

The follmcing is a m/nnpsk of the progress 
and annual results of tfie Company from its or- 
ganisation. Its assets and cash dividends paid, 
to-wit: 









Assets 


Dividends 


DlTd 


April. 30 


1867- 


-(8 mo8.) 


$ 54G.816 91 


10 P.O. 






1S68 




605,984 18 


10 p.c. 


15 p.c 




ISBH 




777.800 57 


10 p.c. 


50 p.c 




1870 




1.063.027 34 


10 p.c. 


65 p.c 




1871 




1.040,676 67 


10 p.c. 


60 p.c 




1872 




1,385,241 86 


10 p.c. 


40p.t 



Making Six Interest Dividends of ten per 
cent, per annum, pai/able semi-annually, in No- 
vember orid May, a/id on attroge Prtndum Div- 
idend if thirty-six and two-thirds per cent, for 
vast six years. 

HARMON DOAKE Pres. 
ED. A. PAXFEEY, Sec. M. GREENWOOD, Vice Pres. 

TRXJSTEIES. 



Moses Greenwood, 
W. A. Johnson, 
Jolin I. Noble, 
John ChalTe. 
Richard Milliken, 
Samuel E. Moore, 
J. J. Warren, 
Simon Bloch, 
R. T. Buckner, 
Samuel Friedlander, 
H. Frellsen, 
W. S. Pike. 



Wm. C. Raymond. 



A. A. rates, 
John I. Adams, 
Isaac Scherck, 

B. M. Walmsley 
M. Musson, 
Wm. Morrison, 
Joseph W. Carroll, 
A. Brittin. 

J. T. Pace, 
A. H. May. 
S. H. Snowden, 
T. Lytt Lyon, 



BAST'S 
LOAN OFFICE 

48 St. CHARLES ST. 

\Coriier GH.^ ri£li.\ 



MONEY LOANED on all kinds of Securities, 



Diamonds, Watches, Jewelry, Etc. 



gmiONER, !,ITHOGfillPy[[i, 

—AND— 



Union Insurance Go, 



NEW ORLEANS. 



N'O. 3 CA.ROKrE>ELET STREET, 
(Neil aoor to the OdIoh Bank.) 

Between CASAL and COMMON Streets. 



SEW OBIEABS 

MutuallnsuranceCo 



Ppfice cor. P;4/Vip and pjiifi^y. p,TS., 



C.A.PIX.A.L, $500,000. 



Incorporated 3d March, 1857, 



CASH CAPITAL, $250,000, FULL PAID. 



Losses Promptly Adjusted and Paid, 

Said Company losure Agaiost 
the rish of Marine, Fire fi Rim. 

A. Chiapella, 



J. M. Crawford, 

Secretary. 



President. 



Assets Dec. 31, 1871, $694,579,90. 



Insures Fire, Marine and River Kislis, 
dividing the profits on each department 
separately to the insured. 

For the accommodation of its customers, 

tlie Company will make Marine Losses 

payable in London. 

J. TUYES, President. 

J. W. HINCKS, .secretary. 



I3IRECTORS. 



Geo. Urqiihart, 
C. T. Dugazon, 
G. W. Babcook, 
T. Bailly Blanchard, 
A. Schreiber, 
J. Lafitte, 



M. Payro, 

Plaoide Forstall, 
Aug. Eeiehard, 
E. Miltenberger, 
W. B. Schmiflt, 
J. Tuyes. 



Mutual Insurance 



COMPANY. 



Incorporated in l849--Consequently is now in ita 



The oldest Mutual Insurance Company in the State. 

It commenced at a time when the Trade of the city was 
less than a moiety of its present extent. 

It passed through the eveutful and disastrous years of 
the war — meeting promptly every claim— and paying its 
annual interest with undeviating punctuality. 

Including the yearsof the war — and two years when it 
passed its dividends — its average annual dividend for 
twenty-three years ending April 30th, 1872, is 

Thirty-Font and Five-Eightlis per cent. 3*5^ per cent 
Average for past six years, • . H 7-16 per cent. 

It has received for premiums and interest $14,857,939 03 
It has paid for Losses, Re-Insurance, Ex- 
penses, etc., including losses by the war, 10,274,416 53 

Leaving net profit for 23 years, $ 4,583,523 60 



Assets, 



§2SS,li9.IO 



TK.XJSTEES. 



THOMAS A. ADAMS, 
SAM'L B. NEWMAN, 
S. H. KENNEDY, 
C. T. B0DDEOKE, 
JOHN PHELPS, 
P. H. FOLEY, 
A. G. OBER, 
ADAM THOMSON, 
E. H. SUMMERS, 
HENRY ABRAHAMS, 
P. N. STRONG, 
VICTOR MEYER, 
JOSEPH BOWLING, 
ED. J. GAY. 



HENRY N. OGDEN, 



JNO. M. SANDIDGE, 
SIMON HERNSHEIM, 
SIMON FORCHEIMER, 
JOS. B. WOLFE, 
R. B. POST, 
R. T. TORIAN. 
ED. PILSBHRY, 
JNO. E. KING, 
OHAS. E. SL.\YBACK, 
FKED'K CAMERDEN, 
DAVID WALLACE, 
J. L. HARRIS, 
ANDREW STEWART, 

THOMAS A. ADAMS, President. 
SAM'L B. NEWMAN, Vice Pres. 
Sec'y. 



R. STEWART DENNEE. 



JULIEN MICHEL. 



law and Consultation Office, 

NO. 26 ST. CHARLES ST., 

iq'E'<;W ORLE.A.ig'S. 



Will practice in t?ie 2d arid 4th Judicial Dis- 
tricts, and in the Supreme Court 
of Die State. 



Commissionef of Deeds, 

For Texas, Illinois, Mississiiii and other States. 

Passports Procured from the State Department in 

Washington. 

34 EXCHANGE ALLEY, 



PARLE'S SALOON, 

Side Entrance, 145i GRAVIER STREET. 



fi. f/^ft^yf:, f ROP'r. 



19 Baronne Street. 



Partieiilar attention to the preservation of 
Decayed Teeth. He has the newly Improv- 
ed Liquid, Nitrous Oxide Gas, which is 
superior to the gas heretofore used. Being 
perfectly pure, less is required to produce 
insensibility to pain and no possible injury 
can result to the patient from its use. Dr. 
Knapp will explain its advantages over other 
anesthetics to Surgeons and to those who 
may wish teeth extracted without pain. 



(Successor to J. M. JOHNSTON,) 

Wholesale Grocer, 

COMMISSION MERCHANT, 

slnd Dealer in 

35 DECATUR ST., 

ISTE-Vir ORx,EA.asrs. 



S. T. BLESSING. 

IsTO. 87" C-A.nsr-A.L ST., 

Hear CHAETRES, Opposite the Fonntain, 

New Orleans, La. 



DE^^-LER. IN 



llbams, Pictures, 

Stereoscopes, 



Frames, 



Etc., Etc. 



f ppjppi^/f jijp pp_pj)p pf ^y^j^Y 



m® 



BRIO 



103 Cek,xi.eil Street, 

«<<»!»» 

DEALER EN 

SEWING MACHINES 

To Run by Hand or Foot. 

RECOMMENDED BY THE MEDICAL FACULTY 

As the only one fit fur ?;«• hi^ dtlkate Lnilies, on acwunt of its Lightness. 



ALL IMPROV[D KINDS OF mm MACHINES 

ox SALE. 

Our new DOMESTIC Sewing Machine 

TS THE pREATEST ^A^ONDER OP THE /^GE. 

These MacMnes are free from all Dangers and Labor encountered in using the old 
fashioned greasy shuttle machines by delicate" females; and, instead of injury, their 
use begets healUi and strength to the Operator. 



You Save $8 to $10 

BY PURCHASING 

SlWme MACHIN] 



Xi ^** .t~C *•*? ■ 



.ABi: 



s a> 



BIT 






At our NEW and SPLENDID STORE can be found 
a Large Assortment of the Finest 

LADIES' SUITS & UNDER GARMENTS 

OF ALL DESCRIPTIOXP, 

at prices which will ASTONISH the Purchaser. 

All manufactured in our Factory, on our Splendid Sew- 
ing Machines. 

$56 and $65. 

Gen. R. E. Lee, writing under date of January 12th, 
18G7, says: " Its simple mechanism, and the experience my 
daughters have had in operating it, makes the 

a great favorite in my family." 



^ yil'll. 



SILENT TWISTED LOOP STITCH 



Always in Good Order and Ready to Sew. 

The only place in the city where all the first-class improved 
Sewing Maciiines are olfeied for sale. Sewina; Machines of all 
liinils repaired. Sill<, Tlirea<l, Oil and Needles for all Machines, 
at the STORE 103 CANAL STREET. 



H. B. STEVENS. 



W. F. CLEVELAND. 



AGENTS WANTED. 



M. S. HEDRICK. 







Wmm^3m^ 






28 & 30 ST. CHARLES STREET, 

(Corner Common Street) 



Miiii) 



KacaiiW 



LATEST STYLES IN 



ills* eioTHine, 



TRUNKS AND UMBRELLAS. 



"V^Tfttei* I*i*c>of Olo t lalxxs- 



S. N. MOODY, 

Manufacturer of 

the: on-A.ivi:r»ioi»r sxxzxirFs, 

And Importer of 

MEN'S FURNISHING GOODS 



Highest 'Premiums at the State Fairs of Lousiana, Texas, Alabama, Mississippi, the Great (Paris 

Exposition of i86j, and endorsed by thousands of customers who have worn no other 

Shirts for the past Twenty Years. 



SEASONABLE 



UIID[R GARMEHTS 



Neck Diessinp 




ALSO 



GLOVES. 



SusiCfiders, 



Shirt Collars 



And Every Requisite for a Gentleman's Toilet. Boys' Shirts and Under Wear. 



Shirts Made to Order in THREE DAYS. A Fit Guaranteed. 

Send for Circtdar, Tape Measure and directions for self=measurement, Gratis. 



©r Carnal aei E@jal §1 

NEW ORLEANS. 



The Largest & Best Assorted Stock 

—OF- 

B:0©Ti ami iHO'Ei 

—FOR— 

ladies. Gents, Misses Boys & Children's Wear 

m THE SOUTH, 



C-A-KT BE FOtJKria .A.T 



Wm. Hogau's 

99 & 101 CANAL STREET, 

Comprising the Latest FRENCH, ENGLISH and AMERICAN Styles, and at 
prices that defy competition. 

The EKBONEons IMPRESSION that goods cannot be sold cheap on Canal street on ac- 
count of high rents, etc., the public mind should be disabused of, and WM. HOGAN 
begs to offer the following reasons why he can afford to sell first-class goods at ex- 
tremely low prices: 

He buys direct from the manufactuer. 

He buys for cash. 

He buys no auction goods. 

He manufactures largely himself. 

His purchases are made in large lots, at wholesale rates, and he intends to do a 
CASH business, and sell low for cash. 

The CELEBRATED "CABLE SCREW WIRE" SEWED Boots and Shoes can be here found 
m endless variety: as also -Evans Patent American" Combined Boot, Shoe & Gaiter 
to Which attention is respectfully invited. 

"^TU- avE. 13: o G- ^^ nsr , 

Manufacturer and Dealer in 

BOOTS, SHOES, TRUNKS, VALISES and BAGS. 
SEWING MACHINES 

Agent for the Eemingtou, Empire and Gold Medal. 



FREDERIGKSON & HARTE. 



WHOLESALE AND KETAIL 



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ISrO- 139 CA-ISTJ^X^ SXK.EET, 
(TouRO Buildings.) 



99 Ss lOl CA.JSrj^Iu STPIEET, 



Importers .ind Dealers in 

Rare Chemicals, Chemical Apparatus, 

Pure Drugs, Essential Oils, 

Perfumery, Mineral Waters 

Surgical Instruments, Of All Kinds, 
Electric and Galvanic Batteries. 



Orders Promptly filled at Lowest Market Rates. 
TERMS CASH. 



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ILLINOIS CENTRAL R. E. 

And Blue Line, Via Cairo, 

WILL TAKE FREIGHT FROM 
NEW ORLEANS. 

On First-Class Steamers, 
LEAVING DAILY, AT 5 O'CLOCK P. M., 

For Cairo, Chicago, and all Points North, 
West & East, 

AT THE LOWEST RATES. 



All rates, and all through bills of lading from New 
Orleans by above route, given, signed and recognized 
only at the General Office of this Company. KG 26 
CABONDELET STREET. 



NASH & HODGSON, 

For the Purcliasei Sale, and Leasing of 

City Property, Plantations and Lands, 

For the Sale ol Cargoes, Stocks, Cotton, Furniture, Scrips, etc., 

ISTO- 5 C-A.R,03SrE)ELET ST., 

A-jS;}y OTiLE^jYS. 

/ES-Out door sales of every description promptly attended to. 



SPORTSMEN'S DEPOT. 




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-^O. 55 ST. CH:^<^K.X,BS ST., Kf. O. 

Supplies for Hunters and Fishernien. 



VEKY DESCRIPTION OF 



JAMES T. TUCKER, Cun«, RIHes, Pistols & Amunillon; Fishing Tackle ot all kinils. 

General Afjcntl tto,„i,ins bj i.o.i work,=»n. 



ILLINOIS CENTRAL LR. 

100 Miles the Shortest Route to Chicago. 
30 IHiles the Shortest Route to St. Louis. 

NO CHANGE OF CARS 

PfomCaifo to St, Louis Of Chicago. 

Only One Change of Cars from Cairo to 

BiifTalo. Baltiinofp, Pitfpliufo'h, I'liiluilel- 
pliia, Niagi-a Falls, \Yasliiii,otoii, New Yofk, 
Boston, and all Points East. Milwaukee St. 
Paul, and all I'oints North. 

This is the only dii-ect route to Peoria, Bur- 
lington, Quhicy, Rock Island, Dubuque, 
Keokuk, Sioux Citv, Omaha and all Points 
North-west. ELEGANT DRAWIXG- 

KOOM SLEEPING CARS on all Night 
Trains. 

^TT-F'T Ti. li' t? ami imformation. apply at the N. O. J 
,V <;t- X, Ti ik'-1 inYicf. Corner Camp and Common Sts 
mi,l. r r;i , II t, : iiid .Tt the N. O. M. & T. Ticket Office" 
o]>]insit'' t'lly Ih'ti i ; on hoard Transit Steamer between 
Colnmbus and I'airo, and at the principal R. R Ticket 
Ofhces throughout the South. 

W. p. JOHNSON, 

Ol n'l Passeuser .igent, Chiclgo 

A. MITCHELL, 

• (ii'n'l Superintendent. Chica^'O 

J. T. TUCKER. 

Gen'i Southern Agent Xew Orleans, 

B. F. LONGLEY 

Southern Passenger Agent, N.O. 





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